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Bayer Code : mygpe

Scientific name: Myagrum perfoliatum L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: mitre cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Hohldotter ; ES : piques grandes ; FR : myagre ; IT : miagro liscio ; PT : ; EN : mitre cress ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons cordate tip.

- Leaves entire, deeply notched.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-70 cm.

- Stem erect.

- Basal leaves in rosette. Fleshy and waxy, bluish-green. Leaves lanceolate, with unmarked leaf -like petiole, at first lobed, then divided. Cauline leaves entire, or toothed, sessile, numerous, clasping the stem with 2 relatively lengthened lobes (narrow auricles ).

- Flowers yellow, small, relatively pale.

- Fruit with a lower part like a recurved cornet and with a upper part broader like 2 lateral humps. Fruits in long racemes, nearly appressed to the fruiting peduncle.

- Rare in crops but frequency increasing.

- Risk of confusion with Calepina irregularis (Asso.) Thell., Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medicus, Rapistrum rugosum (L.) All. (at seedling stage).

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Calepina irregularis , Rapistrum rugosum , Capsella bursa-pastoris


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

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