Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : sanmi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Sanguisorba gaillardotii (Boiss) Hayek , Sanguisorba garganic (Ten.) Bertol.
Classification: Rosaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: salad burnet
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Kleiner Wiesenknopf ; ES : pimpinella menor ; FR : pimprenelle ; IT : salvastrella minore ; PT : pimpinela ; EN : salad burnet ; NL : kleine pimpernel ;
Biological type: Perennial
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- Cotyledons auriculate.
- Leaves pinnate, 3-foliolate ( first leaf sometimes simple ).
- Height: 20-60 cm.
- Stem angular, erect or ascending.
- Leaves lower with 9-25 ovate leaflets ; rounded in outline and crenulate margins. Upper leaves with less numerous leaflets, longer, acute apex and deeply serrate. Leaflets on short, small, secondary stalks.
- Flowers greenish in globose head. Calyx alone around the flower ; sepals ovate, green-purple or red-brownish. Spikelets short, dense, often globose, red-brownish or purple-pinky.
- Fruit ovoid or subglobose, relatively large with ridges, on the angles: thick, blunt, irregularly and deeply sinuate -crenate, bristly sides with obtuse tubercles as high as the ridge. 2-3 indehiscent carpels.
- Plant cultivated in vegetable gardens: leaves are eaten as green salad. Fodder plant. Plant astringent, aromatic, used against catarrh.
- Biological type: perennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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