Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : nigda
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Ranunculaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: love-in-a-mist
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: FR : Damascener Schwarzkümmel ; ES : arañas ; FR : nigelle de Damas ; IT : damigella scapigliata ; PT : barbas-de-velho ; EN : love-in-a-mist ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic, clavated tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves palmate.
- Height: 20-40 cm.
- Stem: erect, angular, simple or branched. Plant with a yellow root orange at first.
- Leaves much dissected in narrow, acute straps which are less narrow in the basal leaves.
- Flowers light-blue, surrounded with the involucral straps long, thin, green and much longer than the sepals : involucre similar to the leaves surrounding the flower. A petal is reduced to a nectary.
- Fruit : globose capsule, smooth, compound with 5 carpels joined each other until the base of the 5 persistent styles at the top of the fruit and more or less recurved. Seed wrinkled.
- Rare in crops. There is an alkaloid in the seeds : damascene, antispasm. Toxic plant.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Rare
Rare
Present
