Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : lapco
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: nipplewort
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Rainkohl ; ES : hierba de los pechos ; FR : lampsane commune ; IT : lassana ; PT : labresto ; EN : nipplewort ; NL : akkerkool ; DK :
Biological type: Annual
- Cotyledons elongate, spoon-shaped.
- Leaves entire, ovate -deltoid, irregularly dentate.
- Height: 20-120 cm.
- Stem glabrous or slightly hairy below, spike -like branched in its upper half.
- Leaves: lower in rosette. Leaves alternate glabrous or scarcely hairy, the first with a long stalk purplish and many-hairy, toothed blade rhomboidal and sparcely hairy. Later leaves divided with a terminal segment larger than the lateral ones.
- Flowers light-yellow (central and outer), ligulate, 8-15 gathered. Flowers circa 10 mm broad, with a glabrous peduncle. Involucral bracts, green and mostly glabrous, on one row, with thick median vein. Involucre with some basal small scales.
- Fruit : achene with 20 longitudinal furrows, without pappus, crown or upper ridge easily falling when ripe.
- Plant eaten as green salad when young. Plant bitter and refreshing, used against chapping.
- Biological type: Annual.
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