Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : scapv
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: shepherd's-needle
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Nabelkerbel ; ES : peine de venus ; FR : peigne-de-Vénus ; IT : pettine di Venere ; PT : agulha-de-pastor ; EN : shepherd's-needle ; NL : naaldekervel ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons very narrow, lengthened (> 10 times longer than broad).
- Leaves pinnately divided.
- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant stiffly hairy, pubescent.
- Stem stiff, striate, with usually spreading branches.
- Leaves ovate in outline, 2-3-pinnate, cut into linear lobes, mucronulate, with rough margins. Indentation and hairiness of leaves are increasing upwards. Petiole channelled and pubescent. Basal sheath present.
- Flowers white in umbels simple or of 2-3 stout rays shorter than the fruit. Involucel of 5 bracts erect or spreading, broad, bi-or tri-fid or pinnate rarely entire.
- Fruit: achene oblong -linear, rough-margined, long-beaked, 4-6 cm long, 4 times longer than the mericarps. Achene more or less dorsally flattened, or sometimes cylindric. Persistent carpophore on the inflorescence after fruit fall.
- Plant expectorant, diuretic and purgative.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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