Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : vlldi
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Valerianaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: Valerianella discoidea
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Feldsalat ; ES : canónigos de flor rosa ; FR : mâche discoïde ; IT : gallinella uncinata ; PT : alface-robusta ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons spatulate.
- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, entire-margined.
- Height: 10-30 cm. Plant hairy, stocky.
- Stem relatively thick and rough.
- Leaves cut, dentate or pinnatifid, hairy on both sides.
- Flowers pale-lilac, in dense globose heads.
- Fruits 2 mm, short-cone-shaped, with 3 blunt angles, roughly hairy, tomentose, with an ovoid navel on the front, crowned by the very spreading calyx of which teeth are awned and sometimes bifid.
- Rare in crops.
- Biological type: annual.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Valerianella .
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Rare
Rare
