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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : melno

Scientific name: Silene noctiflora L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Melandrium noti-florum (L.) Fries.

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: night-flowering catchfly

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Echte Lichtnelke ; ES : ; FR : silène noctiflore ; IT : silene che si apre di notte ; PT : cabacinha ; EN : night-flowering catchfly ; NL : nachtkoekoeksbloem ; DK : natlimurt

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 5-50 cm. Plant hairy-glandular above.

- Stem erect.

- Leaves lower in lax rosette, irregular, obliquely erect, opposite, obovate. Upper leaves lanceolate, ciliate, acute apex.

- Flowers pink above and yellowish beneath, relatively large, in dichasium; calyx fruiting, ovate, 20-25 mm broad, constricted tip, not umbilicate, hairy-glandular, with 10 green veins and awl -like teeth ; petals 2-fid; filaments glabrous.

- Fruit : an ovoid -conical capsule, without septum, 6-8 times longer than the hairy carpophore.

- Rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Rare     France  Rare     Italy  Rare    

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