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Bayer Code : thlar

Scientific name: Thlaspi arvense L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: field penny-cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Hellerkraut ; ES : telaspios ; FR : tabouret des champs ; IT : erba storna comune ; PT : ; EN : field penny-cress ; NL : witte krodde ; DK : almindelig pengeurt

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, margins entire.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-50 cm. Plant glabrous, bright-green, with a scent of garlic.

- Stem erect, angular, simple or branched above.

- Leaves basal in lax rosette, glabrous, smooth, at first ovate-rounded markedly stalked, then lanceolate -ovate with distal teeth. Stem leaves alternate, sinuate -dentate, sessile and amplexicaul by 2 auricles acute at base.

- Flower white, small. Fruiting raceme with spreading pedicels ; erect and equal sepals ; equal petals longer than the sepals; filaments of stamens without teeth and not flattened.

- Fruits : siliculae very large, orbicular, flat, broadly winged all around, with a narrow and deep notch which includes the very short style. Seeds black, grooved, 5-6 in each cell.

- Biological type: annual

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