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Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : tolba

Scientific name: Tolpis barbata (L.) Gaertner


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: Tolpis barbata

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Doldenblütige Tolpis ; ES : ; FR : oeil du christ ; IT : radicchio ombrellato ; PT : olho-de-mocho ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.

- Leaves entire, ovate or triangular, irregularly dentate.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-40 cm.

- Stem erect, branched with very lengthened spreading and leafless or naked branches.

- Leaves glabrescent or pubescent, toothed, oblong -lanceolate, the lower tapered into a stalk.

- Flowers yellow, inner often brown or reddish. Heads small, terminal or axillary, hollow, subtended by terminal bracts ; involucre of which outer bracts are longer than the inner ones.

- Fruits : outer achenes crowned with small scales ; those of the centre with a 4-5-haired pappus.

- Plant ornamental, protected in High-Vienna (decree 01/09/89). [France]

- Biological type: annual


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

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