Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : galtc
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Galium tricorne Stokes pro parte.
Classification: Rubiaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: corn cleavers
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Dreihörniges Labkraut ; ES : amor del hortelano con 3 flores ; FR : gaillet à trois cornes ; IT : caglio coriandolino ; PT : solda-áspera ; EN : corn cleavers ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, linear, acute at the apex.
- Height: 10-50 cm. Plant glabrous with a slender root.
- Stem ascending, sharply 4-angled, angles with recurved and hooked prickles. Plant climbing.
- Leaves 6-8 in whorls, lanceolate, linear, mucronate, hairless above and with small backwardly directed hooked prickles on the margins and the midvein beneath.
- Flowers whitish, small, 2 mostly 3 in axillary cymes. Peduncle 3-12 mm long. Rough bracts.
- Fruit warty, big, 1.5-3 mm.Dry fruit 2-carpelled with recurved hooked prickles or smooth.
- Plant more calcicolous than the other bedstraws.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with the other species of Galium except Galium aparine L. (hooking plant).
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Galium
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
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