Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : scyhi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Scolymus grandiflorus auct. hisp. non Desf.
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: golden thistle
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Spanische Golddistel ; ES : cardellina ; FR : scolyme d'Espagne ; IT : cardogna comune ; PT : cangarinha ; EN : golden thistle ;
Biological type: Biennial
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-Cotyledons entire, rounded and club-shaped.
-Leaves entire, lanceolate and club-shaped, dentate with large soft grooves and long spines.
-Height : 20-80 cm. Plant erect, robust,more or less hairy.
-Stem solitary, branched with the margin of the leaves protracted with gaps along the length of the stem.
-Leaves: at the long, petiolate, oblanceolate, soft, pinnatipartite or runcinate and slightly prickly; cauline leaves, sessile, oblong -linear, ovate, pinnatifid, prickly, thick with white margin.
-Flowers yellow in terminal capitulum and short peduncle, within leaf axils, exceeded by the upper prickly leaves.
-Fruit flat with pappus with few rigid hairs.
-Plant cultivated in certain regions (especially in Spain) for the yellow roots, adventitious buds and the tender stalk of the leaves which can be used in cooking. Plant diuretic.
- Risk of confusion with Scolymus maculatus
- Biological type : Biennial or perennial.
Mistake with: Scolymus maculatus
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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