Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : vllri

Scientific name: Valerianella rimosa Bastard

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Valerianella auricula DC.

Classification: Valerianaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: broad-fruited cornsalad

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Geöhrter Feldsalat ; ES : valerianela rimosa ; FR : mâche auriculée ; IT : gallinella liscia ; PT : ; EN : broad-fruited cornsalad ; NL : geoorde veldsla ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm.

- Stem angular, acute angles, branched, spreading.

- Lower leaves in stout rosette. Upper leaves linear or cut-toothed.

- Flowers whitish in flat and somewhat loose heads; bracts linear, spreading, scarious.

- Fruits convex, subspherical with 5 slightly marked ribs on the back, glabrous, smooth, with 3-5 obscure teeth ; fertile loculus not corky. The two sterile loculi larger than the fertile.

- Biological type: annual.

- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Valerianella .

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Rare       Rare       Present       Present    

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