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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : torma

Scientific name: Tordylium maximum L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hartwort

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Großer Zirmet ; ES : ; FR : tordyle élevé, FR : tordile ; IT : ombrellini maggiori ; PT : ; EN : hartwort ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.

- Leaves entire, rounded, with distal teeth.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-80 cm. Plant rough, with deflexed hairs, ashen-green.

- Stem with stiff deflexed hairs, ridged, angular.

- Leaves lower in 5-7 segments ovate or ovate-elongate more or less divided. Upper leaves pinnatisect with a terminal segment longer than broad, coarsely and unequally toothed on side.

- Flowers white with unequal petals in umbel, a single petal larger than the 4 others. Umbel with 5-10 unequal stiffly hairy rays. Involucre and involucel with narrow and spreading linear bracts.

- Fruit : achene on a very short pedicel, globose and hairy. Margin swollen hairy and not crenulate -embossed. Carpophore persistent on the inflorescence after fruit fall.

- Biological type: annual.


Ecological profile : Spain   Rare     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Rare    

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