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Bayer Code : ssyof
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Erysimum officinale L.
Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: hedge mustard
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Weg-Rauke ; ES : hierba de san alberto ; FR : sisymbre officinal ; IT : erba cornacchia comune ; PT : rinchao ; EN : hedge mustard ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons: spatulate to club-shaped, markedly stalked.
- Leaves: first leaves orbicular, with a sinuate margin, later leaves deeply lobed to narrowly pinnatifid.
- Height: up to 90 cm. Plant glabrous.
- Stem erect, very branched especially at level of inflorescences.
- Leaves petiolated, deeply pinnatifid with a round, big terminal lobe and 1-3 shallow elongated lateral lobes on each side which are (±) perpendicular to the principle vein of the leaf.
- Flowers small, yellow. inflorescences bractless, at first corymbose later extending.
- Fruit 1 to 2 cm long, with peduncles as big as the fruits at the level of the inflorescence's axil - small seeds.
- Plant antispasmodic and anticatarrhal. Roots used as apperitif and diuretic.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Rare Present Present Present Present