Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : oxapc
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:Oxalis cernua Thunberg
Classification: Oxalidaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: bermuda-buttercup
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Ziegenfuß-Sauerklee ; ES : trébol de huerta ; FR : oxalis penché ; IT : acetosella gialla ; PT : erva-pata ; EN : bermuda-buttercup ;
Biological type: Perennial with bulbs
- Plant propagates overall vegetatively (bulbs,bulbils...); establishment from seedling is rare.
- Height: 5-15 cm..
- Stem underground arisen from a deep bulb with isolated bulbils as big as a pea.
- Leaves all in dense rosette, long-stalked, with 3 cordate leaflets.
- Flowers light-yellow, large, on long peduncles, 3-8 in cyme. Petals 20-25 mm.
- Fruits : capsule cylindric, oblong, but the fruit is rarely produced.
- Plant with leaf slightly acid, refreshing, antiseptic, antiscorbutic, astringent and diuretic, because the presence of oxalic acid inside. Rare in crops.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all species of Trifolium and the other species of Oxalis .
- Biological type: perennial with bulbs.
Mistake with: Trifolium , Oxalis
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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Rare
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