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Bayer Code : galtc

Scientific name: Galium tricornutum Dandy


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


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, linear, acute at the apex.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- 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): Germany   Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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