Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : filga
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Filago gallica L.
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: narrow-leaved cudweed
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Französisches Fadenkraut ; ES : ; FR : cotonnière de France ; IT : bambagia di francia ; PT : erva-dos-moínhos ; EN : narrow-leaved cudweed ;
Biological type: Annual
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Seedling:
- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).
- Leaves entire, linear with an acute apex.
- Height: 10-20 cm.
- Stem: ascending, irregularly forked at the tip, 2-3 branched, woolly.
- Leaves: lower in rosette, leaves very firm, lanate and whitish. The upper lanceolate 12-20 x 1-3 mm, sessile, lanate, white, downy.
- Flowers : greenish in spherical heads, 2-7 in lateral clusters.
- Fruits : seeds 0.6 mm, rough, outer without pappus.
- Rare in crops.
- Risk of confusion with species of Gnaphalium and Filago .
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Gnaphalium , Filago
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Rare
Present
