Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : lycar

Scientific name: Anchusa arvensis (L.) M. Bieberstein

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Lycopsis arvensis L., Anchusa azurea

Classification: Boraginaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bugloss

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Krummhals ; ES : miel de avispas ; FR : buglosse des champs ; IT : buglossa minore ; PT : buglossa ; EN : bugloss ; NL : kromhals ; DK : krumhals

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical spoon shaped.

- Entire leaves, lanceolate, more or less dentate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 20-50 cm.

- Stem erect generally hairy, hispid.

- Leaves sinuate-wavy oblong or lanceolate, the lower ones attached to petiole, the upper leaves sessile hispid with straight hair, clasped halfway up the stem.

- Flowers with pale blue corolla, flattened, in whorl with short tube, sepals with straight silky threads. Inflorescence in 2 terminal scorpioid cymes.

- Fruits, indehiscent with very hard wall (pericarp); it contains only one seed. Fruits ovate concave, fleshy, brown, shiny, reticulate.

-Roots provide red dye.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Present       Rare       Rare       Present       Present       Present       Present       Rare    

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