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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : gypmu

Scientific name: Gypsophila muralis L.


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


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).

- Leaves entire, linear, acuminate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- 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): Germany   Rare     France  Rare    

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