Odontites verna

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

Bayer Code : odove

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Bartisia odonites (L.) Hudson, Odontites rubra Gilib.

Classification: Scrophulariaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: red bartsia

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Zahntrost ; ES : algarabia ; FR : odontitès du printemps ; IT : perlina di primavera ; PT : ; EN : red bartsia ;

Biological type: Annual

Seedling:

- Cotyledons round oval, glabrous, revolute on margins, therefore fleshy in appearance.

- Foliage leaves first round oval, later oblong oval, regularly serrate, bristly haired, margin vaulted towards the ground, opposite.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-35 cm.

- Stem upright, unbranched or with a few branches in the upper part.

- Foliage leaves linear -lanceolate (18-55 x 6-12 mm), bluntly serrate, downy haired, opposite.

- Flowers in many-blossomed raceme (15-50 blossoms), red, hairy, thornless; stamens sticking out from the upperlip.

- Biological type: annual

Ecological profile (click on flags): Present