Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : lolte
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Lolium arvense With.
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: darnell
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Taumel-Raygras ; ES : cizaña común ; FR : ivraie enivrante ; IT : loglio ubriacante ; PT : joio ; EN : darnell ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Shoot rolled, sheath terete.
- Leaf blade 20-50 times longer than broad, leaf glabrous.
- Ligule membranous truncate, auricles elongate and crossed.
- Height: 40-120 cm. Plant tufted, glabrous.
- Stem: stout, erect or ascending.
- Leaves light-green, slightly rough, flat, lengthened and acute.
- Inflorescence : spike 20-50 cm long, erect, of numerous spikelets lanceolate, erect-spreading during the flowering. 3-10 green florets in each spikelet. Lower flowering glumes often with an awn of same length. Glume up to 1/3-1/2 of the whole of the flowering glumes.
- Fruit : seed turgid with an elliptical caryopsis less than 3 times longer than broad.
- Rare in crops. Plant toxic, poisonous in flour when the seeds crushed with wheat.
- Risk of confusion with Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium rigidum Gaud.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Lolium multiflorum , Lolium rigidum
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
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