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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : litar

Scientific name: Lithospermum arvense L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Buglossoides arvensis (L.) I.M. Johansson

Classification: Boraginaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: field gromwell

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Steinsame ; ES : mijo de sal, ES : cornicabra ; FR : grémil des champs ; IT : erba-perla minore ; PT : ; EN : field gromwell ; NL : ruw parelzaad ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with rounded tip, more or less petiolate, lanceolate, entire leaves, more or less dentate.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 8-50 cm.

- Stem flowered erect or ascending, slightly branched, covered with persistent hairs, with principal developed root.

- Leaves pale green, covered with small persistent hairs, attenuated at base and towards top. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, rough, with one vein. Cauline leaves sessile.

- White flowers in slightly curved raceme. Calyx strigose with hairs with narrow division and pointed at top. Corolla covered with hair on outside not inside. Stamens fastened towards the base of corolla.

- Fruits brownish, roughly covered by small tubers or projections, increasingly distal at maturity, with 4 pointed parts towards top.

- Red coloured matter produced by external part of plant is used like paint or to colour butter.

- Biological type: annual.

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

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