HYPP-A Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : senvu

Scientific name: Senecio vulgaris L.

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Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: groundsel

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Name per country: DE : Gemeines Geiskraut ; ES : hierba cana ; FR : séneçon vulgaire ; IT : senecio comune ; PT : tasneirinha ; EN : groundsel ; NL : klein kruiskruid ; DK : almindelig brandbæger

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic, clavated tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-40 cm.

- Stem erect, branched.

- Leaves nearly glabrous or pubescent (thin, united and hairy), pinnate or pinnatifid with equal, spreading, angular and dentate lobes. Lower leaves tapered into a petiole, cauline leaves sessile, amplexicaul and auriculate.

- Flowers yellow all tubular, in small heads; stigma truncate at apex. Involucre cylindric, glabrous with leaflets black-tipped and with an involucel of 8-10 small bracts 4 times shorter than the leaflets.

- Fruit : brown or grey, pubescent achenes.

- Plant emollient, refreshing, used against epilepsy, gout and rheumatisms; plant containing inulin. Fruits are eaten by small pet bird species. Populations exist which are resistant to triazines in France, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, Canada, Belgium, U.S.A., Netherland.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Present     Denmark  Present     Spain  Rare     France  Present     Great Britain  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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