Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : lthoc
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: winged vetchling
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Eselsohr ; ES : alverjana loca ; FR : gesse ; IT : cicerchia pisellina ; PT : ervilhaca-dos-campos ; EN : winged vetchling ;
Biological type: Annual
- Cotyledons invisible (hypogeal germination).
- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.
- Height: 25-70 cm.
- Stems markedly winged, with a developed principal root.
- Leaf with a flattened stalk inflated as leaf blade, twisted on its base, without leaflets in the middle and lower leaves, but with 1 or several tendrills; 1-4 small leaflets ovate, alternate on the flattened petiole of the upper leaves. Stipules ovate, lanceolate.
- Flowers light-yellow, solitary or in pairs on short flowering branches.
- Fruits : pod hairless, tawny when ripe, reticulate and with 2 flattened stips lengthwise on the back. Pod with 2 wings on the dorsal vein, (40-60 x 10-12 mm). -Plant cultivated in the past as fodder.
- Biological type: Annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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