Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : heqgl
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: smooth rupturewort
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Kahles Bruchkraut ; ES : ; FR : herniaire glabre ; IT : erniaria glabra ; PT : erva-turca ; EN : smooth rupturewort ; NL : breukkruid ;
Biological type: Annual, Perennial
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- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.
- Height: 5-20 cm. Plant glabrous, light-green, with a slender root.
- Stem prostrate and very branched.
- Leaves basal opposite, later alternate. Leaves small, elliptic to lanceolate, sessile ; glabrous or hairy (very short frizzy hairs). Stipules small, ovate, ciliate.
- Flowers greenish less than 1 mm, obscurely peduncled, in axillary racemes. Calyx glabrous.
- Fruit : with seeds circa 0.4 mm, black, shining, ovate, flattened, with tapered margins.
- Plant used as an active diuretic. The plant contains flavonic pigments and coumarine.
- Rare in crops.
- Biological type: Annual or perennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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