Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : orope
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: bird's-foot
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Kleiner Vogelfuß ; ES : serradilla ; FR : pied d' oiseau délicat ; IT : uccellina minore ; EN : bird's-foot ; DK : liden fugleklo
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves pinnately foliate.
- Height: 7-30 cm.
- Stem spreading or erect.
- Leaves: 11-25 leaflets ovate or ovate-elongate, rounded tip.
- Flowers white veined with yellow, with a red-striped standard, 3-8 terminal on short flowering peduncles. Each head of flowers is subtended by a leaf -like bract, somewhat exceeding the flowers.
- Fruits blackish when ripe, reticulate -veined, pubescent, 4-7- transversal joints, tapered into a nearly straight beak shorter than the last joint of the fruit.
- Plant very melliferous.
- Risk of confusion with Ornithopus compressus L.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Ornithopus compressus
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Rare
Present
Rare
