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Bayer Code : kicsp

Scientific name: Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumortier


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Linaria spuria (L.) Miller.

Classification: Scrophulariaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: round-leaved fluellen

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Unechtes Tännelkraut ; ES : ; FR : linaire bâtarde ; IT : cencio molle piccolo ; PT : falsa-verónica ; EN : round-leaved fluellen ; NL : eironde leeuwebek ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons spatulate.

- Leaves entire, deeply notched.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50 cm.

- Stems prostrate, glandular hairy and with tufts of long hairs up to 100 cm.

- Leaves alternate, short-stalked, ovate, rounded at base, hairy and usually entire-margined.

- Flowers yellow snap-dragon like, upper lip brown-purple. Corolla lengthened into a long curved spur, 10-15 mm long with a long peduncle usually hairy. Sepals ovate and cordate at the base.

- Fruit : globose capsule. Seeds elliptic, lengthened, brown and reticulate, alveolate, circa 1 mm.

- Plant vulnerary, astringent,discutient, emollient.

- Risk of confusion with Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort. (which is differented by the floral leaves hastate and glabrous branches ).

- Biological type: Annual.

Mistake with: Kickxia elatine


Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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