Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : musra
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Muscari compactum Boiss. & Reuter, Muscari mordoanum Heldr. Muscari vandasii Velen, Hyacinthus racemosus L. Muscar racemosum (L.) Lam. & DC.
Classification: Liliaceae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: grape hyacinth
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Übersehene Träubelhyazinthe ; ES : cebollita de milano ; FR : muscari à grappes ; IT : muscari ignorato ; PT : ; EN : grape hyacinth ;
Biological type: Perennial with bulbs
- Plant propagates overall vegetatively (bulbs...); establishment from seedling is rare.
- A single cotyledon, linear, recurved at the tip.
- Leaves more or less spreading, semi-cylindrical and channelled beneath.
- Height: 10-30 cm.
- Stem erect.
- Leaves more or less spreading, 2-5 mm broad, semi-cylindrical and channelled beneath.
- Flowers dark-blue with lighter or whitish teeth, plum-scented. Flowers relatively large, in dense ovate -oblong raceme. Floral peduncles shorter than the flowers.
- Fruit : capsule opening by 3 orbicular valves not cordate at the apex. Seeds minutely striate. Widely planted as an ornamental.
- Risk of confusion with Allium vineale L.
- Biological type: perennial with bulbs.
Mistake with: Allium vineale
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Present
Rare
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