Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : vller
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Valerianaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: hairy-fruited cornsalad
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Wollfrüchtiger Feldsalat ; FR : Valérianelle à fruits velus ; IT : valerianella campanulata ; EN : hairy-fruited cornsalad ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.
- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, entire-margined.
- Height: 5-40 cm.
- Stem 4-6-angled, somewhat thick, rough.
- Leaves entire or dentate (sometimes on a single side).
- Flowers pink in flat dense heads on thickened peduncles.
- Fruits (1.5- x 2 mm), ovate, more or less hairy; calyx obliquely truncate as long as the fruit, with 5 acute teeth, more stout above the fertile cell; fertile loculus not corky.
- Rare in crops.
- Biological type: annual.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Valerianella .
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
