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

Bayer Code : gaese

Scientific name: Galeopsis segetum Necker


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Galeopsis dubia Leers.

Classification: Labiatae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: downy hemp-nettle

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gelber Hohlzahn ; FR : galéopsis des moissons ; IT : canapetta campestre ; EN : downy hemp-nettle ; NL : bleekgele hennepnetel ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons auriculate.

- Leaves entire, elliptic-ovate, regularly dentate.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50 cm.

- Stem ascending, 4-angled, branched, not swollen and not rough at nodes. Light-head glandular hairs.

- Leaves opposite, ovate, lanceolate, densely velvety beneath, erect-haired.

- Flowers light-yellow or pink, 25-35 mm long in whorls. Upper lip helmet-shaped, erect. Lower lip 3-lobed, median lobe longer than broad and the largest. 4-8 flowers in pseudo-whorl. Calyx campanulate, narrow, 10-veind and 5 subequal teeth 2-4 mm ending in a bristle spine.

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

- Rare in crops.

- Biological type: Annual.


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

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