Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Bayer Code : fumof
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Papaveraceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: common fumitory
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Erdrauch ; ES : fumaria ; FR : fumeterre officinale ; IT : fumosterno, IT : feccia ; PT : erva-moleirinha ; EN : common fumitory ; NL : gewone duivekervel ; DK : læge-jordrog
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons very narrow and lengthened (up to 10 times longer than wide).
- Leaves pinnately divided.
- Height: 10-70 cm. Plant variable, glaucous rarely climbing.
- Stem erect or ascending, branched, glabrous, canaliculate at base.
- Leaves lower in rosette ; leaves blue-green, 2-3-pinnatisect with a 3-lobed midsegment, one vein beneath. Later leaves glabrous, downy, blue-green, 1-4-pinnatisect with filiform segments, sometimes 3 mm broad.
- Flowers crimson or pink in more or less dense raceme. Flowers with 2 sepals and 4 petals darker at the apex and beak -like. 2 petal -like sepals shorter and narrower than the corolla but broader than the peduncle. Axillary or terminal racemes.
- Fruit : capsulae roundish flattened and indehiscent with one seed, broader than long. Fruit mostly with 2 apical pits, rugose when dry, indehiscent, one-seeded. Peduncles longer than the fruit and twice longer than the bract.
- Plant used in herbal medicine as depurative, in arterioslerosis, as a tonic for stimulating the appetite and as a diuretic.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with the other species of Fumaria .
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Fumaria
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