Myosurus minimus

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

Bayer Code : mysmi

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Ranunculaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: mousetail

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Mäuse ; ES : cola de ratón ; FR : queue de souris ; IT : coda di topo ; PT : ; EN : mousetail ; NL : muizestaart ;

Biological type: Annual, Biennial

Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).

- Leaves entire, linear, acute at the apex.

Adult plant:

- Height: 5-15 cm.

- Stem: only flowering stems.

- Leaves all in rosette very small and very stout, grass-green, very narrow and very long, grass-like leaves.

- Flowers green-yellowish, small, solitary. Petals shorter than the sepals, sepals nectariferous-tube like at the base. Carpel in lengthened spike.

- Fruit long and tapered, 30 times longer than broad and sometimes exceeding the rest of the plant.

- Rare in crops. Poisonous plant.

- Biological type: annual or biennial.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare Rare Rare