Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : heqhi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: hairy rupturewort
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Behaartes Bruchkraut ; ES : hierba de las heridas ; FR : herniaire (ou hernière) velue ; IT : erniaria irsuta ; PT : ; EN : hairy rupturewort ;
Biological type: Annual, Biennial
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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 stiffly hairy.
- Stem prostrate and very branched.
- Leaves basal short-stalked, later alternate. Leaves hispid, lanceolate, sessile, stiffly hairy (like the stems) with ovate stipules.
- Flowers yellow-greenish not very distinct, obscurely peduncled, in axillary heads. Calyx hairy, each sepal ending in a longer bristle.
- Fruit : seeds circa 0.4 mm, black, shining, ovate, flattened, with tapered margins.
- Plant diuretic, emollient, antihernial, used in the past against gravel.
- Rare in crops.
- Risk of confusion with Herniaria glabra L. (differentiated by the glabrous calyx and the glabrous or ciliate leaves).
- Biological type: Annual or biennial.
Mistake with: Herniaria glabra
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Rare
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