Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : scyma
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: spotted thistle
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gefleckte Golddistel ; ES : cardo borriquero ; FR : scolyme taché ; IT : cardogna macchiata ; PT : escólimo-malhado ;
Biological type: Annual
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-Cotyledons rounded and club shaped.
-Leaves lanceolate, dentate, with large soft grooves and long spines.
Height : 15-90 cm. Plant erect, robust, sometimes glabrous.
-Stem solitary, branched with the margin of the leaves protracted with gaps along the length of the stem.
-Leaves : shortened petiole in basal leaves, soft, pinnatifid, and slightly prickly, cauline leaves, sessile, oblong -lanceolate or ovate with margin regularly dentate, more or less long, triangular, pointed, prickly with white margin.
-Flowers : terminal capitulum, yellow with short peduncle within leaf axils, exceeded by upper prickly leaves.
-Fruit obovoid, flat without pappus.
- Risk of confusion with Scolymus hispanicus .
- Biological type : annual.
Mistake with: Scolymus hispanicus
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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