Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : gypmu
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: annual gypsophila
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Mauer-Gipskraut ; FR : gypsophile des murs ; IT : gipsofila minuta ; PT : ; EN : annual gypsophila ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).
- Leaves entire, linear, acuminate.
- Height: 5-20 cm. Plant pubescent with a slender root.
- Stem blue-green, ascending or erect, usually branched near the base, sometimes short-haired below.
- Leaves sessile, narrowly lanceolate or linear, acute, 10-25 times longer than broad, opposite.
- Flowers pink, small, long-stalked, in lax dichotomous cyme. Sepals free, 2-4 mm long, with a membranous and glabrous margin. Petals twice longer than the sepals, pinky, dark-striped, denticulate.
- Fruit : 4-toothed capsule, teeth 4 times shorter than the capsule, with a short carpophore.
- Presence of saponine in roots and used as drug and detergent. -Rare in crops.
- Biological type: Annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Rare
