Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : hloum
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: jagged chickweed
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Doldige Spurre ; ES : estrellada ; FR : holostée en ombelle ; IT : garofolino ad ombrella ; PT : estrelada ; EN : jagged chickweed ;
Biological type: Annual
- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.
- Height: 5-30 cm. Plant glaucous, pubescent, glandular hairy with a slender principal root.
- Stem very short, with short internodes at the base. Early development of cotyledon buds.
- Leaves lower in pseudo-rosette ; leaves ovate, glaucous, few pairs of lanceolate leaves on the stem.
- Flowers white to pink (often toothed ) in dense umbel -like racemes. Flowers terminal with unequal pedicels, deflexed after flowering.
- Fruit : capsule opening by 6 revolute teeth, 6-celled with seeds red-brown, 0.5 mm, rounded: keeled on one side and furrowed on the other side.
- Rare in crops.
- Biological type: Annual
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Rare
Present
