Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : teubo
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Labiatae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: cut-leafed germander.
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Trauben-Gamander ; ES : pinillo hembra de jaraba ; FR : germandrée en grappe ; IT : camedrio secondo ; PT : morugem-branca ; EN : cut-leafed germander ; NL : trosgamander ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptical to oval, with rounded tips, with or without petioles.
- Entire leaves elliptical to oval, regularly dentate.
- Height: 10 to 40 cm. Plant softly hairy with an unpleasant odour.
- Stems upright ascendant, branchy, very leafy.
- Leaves dark green above, lighter below, always petiolate, opposite, oval triangular, pinnatifid, segments linear to oblong. bracts (superior) pinnatifid. Hair very short, grey-green on the lower surface.
- Flowers pinkish purple pedicellate, axillary, 3 to 8 in half-whorls along the branches ; calyx hairy glandular, campanulate, with a network of veins, with triangular to needlel-like teeth, equally sized; corolla externally hairy.
- Fruits : achenes divided into 4 brown nutlets, lightly reticulate.
- Plant sometimes cultivated as ornamental plant. The leaves and the flower heads have tonic, antifebrile porperties, vermifuge, bitter and sudorific.
- Biological type: annual.
- Frequency: Rare in crops.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
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