Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : oroco
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: yellow serradella
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Flachhülsiger Vogelfuß ; ES : cornicabra ; FR : pied d' oiseau comprimé ; IT : uccellina comune ; PT : serradela-brava ; EN : yellow serradella ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves pinnately foliate.
- Height: 20-50 cm. Plant smooth-haired.
- Leaves: 13-31 leaflets often not very acute at the tip. Stipules very small, ovate-acute, absent at the base of the upper leaves.
- Flowers yellow, small, 5-6 mm long; 3-5 in simple pseudo-umbel, subtended by a 7-9-scaled leaf -like bract longer than the flowers.
- Fruits : curved especially in the upper part and tapered into a hooked beak. Blackish when ripe, strongly reticulate with prominent veins. Pod with 5-8-joints, not constricted, but with an equal breadth along the fruit.
- Risk of confusion with Ornithopus perpusillus L.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Ornithopus perpusillus
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
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