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

Bayer Code : resph

Scientific name: Reseda phyteuma L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Resedaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: corn mignonette

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Rapunzel-Wau ; ES : reseda silvestre ; FR : réséda raiponce ; IT : reseda selvatica ; PT : reseda-menor ; EN : corn mignonette ;

Biological type: Annual, Biennial

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less dentate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 20-40 cm.

- Stem often branched near the base, prostrate or erect, angular, pubescent and slightly rough.

- Leaves lower spatulate and lengthened, the upper 3-lobed with lanceolate segments and rounded tip. - Flowers whitish, in raceme further elongating and linear. 6 sepals oblong, blunt, accrescent. 6 petals very much laciniate. Stamens 16-18 with spatulate tip.

- Fruits : capsule, drooping, large, obovate, acuminate toothed. Seeds grey, rugose.

- Plant used in the past as depurative and sudorific.

- Biological type: annual or biennial.

Mistake with: Reseda media Lagasca

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