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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : ssyor

Scientific name: Sisymbrium orientale L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Sisymbrium columnae Jacq.; inclu. Sisymbrium costen Fouc. & Rouy.

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: eastern rocket

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Orientalische Rauke ; ES : erismo oriental ; FR : sisymbre d' orient ; IT : erba cornacchia ; PT : rinchao ; EN : eastern rocket ;

Biological type: Biennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elongate, spoon-shaped.

- Leaves entire, ovate to deltoid, irregularly dentate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-60 cm. Plant hairy, greyish.

- Stem erect, branched or simple.

- Leaves stalked, runcinate, pinnate, the middle with a hastate terminal lobe. Upper leaves lanceolate, entire.

- Flowers yellowish, small, sepals erect, petals exceeding the calyx.

- Fruiting raceme long, lax on very short (2-7 mm) and very thick stalks; siliqua few, very long (5cm), opened, distant, stiff; valves 3-veined ; seeds relatively big, brown, smooth, on a single row.

- Biological type: biennial.


Ecological profile (click on flags): Spain   Present     France  Present    

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