Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Bayer Code : sollu
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Solanum luteum subsp. luteum Miller.
Classification: Solanaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: hairy nightshade
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gelber Nachtschatten ; ES : solanum villoso ; FR : morelle jaune ; IT : morella rossa ; PT : ; EN : hairy nightshade ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, acute at the apex, sessile.
- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, margins entire.
- Height: 20-60 cm. Plant greyish, smoothly hairy, nearly lanate, with a strong scent of musk.
- Stem erect or decumbent, pyramid-shaped branched, with branches obscurely angular, nearly smooth, neither winged nor dentate.
- Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate, sinuate -dentate. Prominent veins.
- Flowers white, rather small, in umbellate few-flowered cymes ; fruiting peduncles often shorter than the pedicels ; calyx densely hairy, with ovate lobes ; corolla lanate, 3-4 times as long as the calyx.
- Fruit : small, subglobular and yellow-orange berries.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Solanum nigrum
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Present
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