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

Bayer Code : toiar

Scientific name: Torilis arvensis (Hudson) Link


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: spreading hedge-parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Klettenkerbel ; ES : bardanilla ; FR : torilis des champs ; IT : lappolina canaria ; PT : salsinha ; EN : spreading hedge-parsley ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow, lengthened ( >10 times longer than wide).

- Leaves pinnately divided.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-50 cm.

- Stem erect, branched with spreading branches, deflexed-hispid.

- Leaves lower in rosette, clear-green to greyish-green, bipinnatisect, with lanceolate -ovate segments, cut, dentate, the terminal of the upper leaves more lengthened.

- Flowers white or pink in umbels, outer raying equalling the ovary more long. Umbels terminal long and stalked, flat, 3-8 scabrous rays. Involucre absent or with 1-2 short bracts. Involucel with linear bracts. Style spreading-erect, hairy at base.

- Fruits : achenes ovoid with straight spines, spreading; thickened at tip, nearly equalling its diameter. Persistent carpophore after fruit fall.

- Biological type: annual.


Ecological profile (click on flags): Germany   Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Portugal  Present    

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