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Bayer Code : erpve

Scientific name: Erophila verna (L.) Chevallier


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Erophila krockeri Andrz, Erophila majuscula Jordan Draba obconica (De Bary) Hayek.

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: common whitlowgrass

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Frühlings-Hungerblümchen ; ES : ; FR : drave printanière ; IT : draba primaverile ; PT : ; EN : common whitlowgrass ; NL : vroegeling ; DK : vår-gæslingblomst

Biological type: Annual


Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less toothed.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 5-15 cm. Plant more or less hairy. Principal and secondary roots slender and relatively lengthened. Very variable plant.

- Stem simple, leafless, curved-ascending, pubescent below.

- Leaves confined in a basal rosette, narrowed near the stalk. Leaves lanceolate, spatulate, not firm, green with forked hairs; no upper leaves.

- Flowers white, small in dense corymbose. Sepals (1-2.5 mm) equal at the base, petals exceeding the calyx.

- Fruit : silicule ovate or oblong, glabrous. Fruiting raceme short and loose, with spreading-erect pedicels. Seeds brown, 0.3-0.5 mm, numerous in each cell.

- Plant used in the past against whitlows. Scattering by wind, water and man.

- Biological type: Annual.


Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Present     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present    

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