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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : rorsy

Scientific name: Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Nasturtium sylvestre (L.) R. Br.

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: creeping yellow-cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Wald-Sumpfkresse ; FR : cresson des bois ; IT : crescione radicina ; PT : agriao-silvestre ; EN : creeping yellow-cress ; DK : vej-guldkarse

Biological type: Perennial with stolons


Seed snapshotSeed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- Leaves at first rounded, then pinnately divided.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-60 cm.

- Stem spreading, more or less drooping, hairless.

- Leaves pinnately divided, the upper leaves with narrower lobes.

- Flowers yellow, petals twice longer than the yellowish and spreading sepals.

- Fruit : siliqua 7-10 times longer than broad, without midrib.

- Biological type: perennial with stolons.


Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Present     Denmark  Present     France  Present     Italy  Present    

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