Falcaria vulgaris

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : falvu

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Falcaria sioides Ascherson.

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: longleaf

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Sichelmöhre ; ES : falcaria vulgar ; FR : falcaire commune ; IT : falcaria comune ; PT : ; EN : longleaf ;

Biological type: Biennial, Perennial

Seed:

Seedling:

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

- Leaves entire, elliptic to ovate, regularly toothed.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-90 cm. Plant glabrous, glaucous with a very long root. Adventitious buds on root for vegetative multiplication.

- Stem erect, minutely furrowed and numerous distant forks.

- Lower leaves, ovate-elongate, rough, coriaceous, ternate. Upper leaves smaller, pinnatisect, toothed, mucronate, with linear -lanceolate segments.

- Flowers white, small (less than 1 mm), in 12-15-rayed dense small umbels. Involucre and involucel with 4-8 linear or awled bracts.

- Fruit : achene lengthened and narrow, 3-4 mm long, yellow to brownish. Persistent carpophore on the inflorescence after the fall of the fruit.

- Plant stimulating and diuretic.

- Biological type: Biennial or perennial.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare Present