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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : reslu

Scientific name: Reseda lutea L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Reseda ramosissima Pourret ex Willd.

Classification: Resedaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: wild mignonette

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gelber Wau ; ES : gabarro ; FR : réséda jaune ; IT : reseda comune ; PT : minhonete ; EN : wild mignonette ;

Biological type: Annual, Perennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-70 cm. Plant more or less hairy, very variable.

- Stem often prostrate at base, then ascending, ribbed, with whitish and prominent tubercles.

- Leaves lower obovate, oblong, entire or 3-lobed. Leaves rough with somewhat curly or undulate margins. Upper leaves 1-3-pinnatifid.

- Flowers yellow or greenish, in raceme, irregular, deeply divided, small, 6 sepals, 6 petals 3-fid the middle lobe narrower than the 2 lateral. Stamens : 20, filament not spatulate at the tip.

- Fruit : capsule roundish at base, erect, angular, truncate tip.

- Plant diuretic and sudorific.

- Biological type: annual or perennial.


Ecological profile (click on flags): Spain   Present     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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