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Bayer Code : gaean

Scientific name: Galeopsis angustifolia Ehrhart ex Hoffmann


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Galeopsis ladanum subsp. angustifolia Gaudin Galeopsis ladanum sensu Coste non L.

Classification: Labiatae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: red hemp-nettle

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Schmalblättriger Hohlzahn ; FR : galéopsis à feuilles étroites ; IT : canapetta a foglie strette ; EN : red hemp-nettle ; NL : smalbladige raai ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons auriculate.

- Leaves entire, elliptic-ovate, regularly dentate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant light-green-dark-green.

- Stem branched, usually pubescent, 4-angled, not swollen and not waxed at nodes.

- Leaves opposite, stalked, lanceolate, very narrow, toothed or crenate, hairy-downy to slightly glandular, weakly veined.

- Flowers in axillary pseudo-whorls. Calyx campanulate hairy, whitish-green unequally-toothed, densely appressed -hairy. Corolla purple, scarcely white, upper lip helmet-shaped, erect. Lower lip 3-lobed, median lobe longer than broad and the largest.

- Fruit : 4-achene ovoid, 3 mm x 2 mm.

- Biological type: Annual.

Mistake with: Galeopsis ladanum


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