Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : scvla
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Podospermum laciniatum (L.) DC. Podospermum calcitrapifolium (Vahl.) DC. Podospermum willkommii Schultz Bip., Scorzonera resedifolia L.
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: laciniate-viper's grass
Synonym(s) of Common name:scorzonera
Name per country: DE : Schlitzblättriges Stielsamenkraut ; ES : margallos ; FR : scorsonère à feuilles laciniées ; IT : scorzonera laciniata ; PT : escorcioneira ; EN : laciniate-viper's grass ;
Biological type: Biennial
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Adult plant:
- Leaves entire, linear, acute apex.
- Height: 10-45 cm. Plant whitish-green.
- Stem erect, leafy, branched, rarely simple, glabrous, with ascending branches, sometimes with spreading lateral branches.
- Leaves very variable in form, usually with leaflets on each side on 2 rows and a terminal leaflet, or sometimes lengthened, narrow and without leaflet.
- Flowers pale-yellow in head. Involucral bracts acute: the outer shorter, short-haired with a horn below the apex.
- Fruit greyish 5-ribbed in the upper part, on a whitish swollen 10-ribbed with 5 more prominent ribs on pedicel. Pappus white-greyish.
- Leaves, stems and roots are eaten as a vegetable. Latex in leaves and roots.
- Biological type: biennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Present
Rare
