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Bunias erucago L.

Crested wartycabbage (en), Roquette des champs (fr), Bunias fausse roquette (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Bunias

Characteristics

Annuals; glabrous or pubescent. Stems unbranched or branched basally and distally, 1.5-7(-10) dm, (often white-hispid proximally and trichomes simple, glabrous distally). Basal leaves: petiole 1-4(-6) cm; blade lanceolate (in outline), lyrate to sinuate-pinnatifid, or runcinate-pinnatisect, (1-)3-15(-19) cm, lateral lobes oblong or lanceolate, (smaller than terminal lobe). Cauline leaves: (distalmost) blade lanceolate or sublinear. Fruiting pedicels divaricate, straight, 1.5-2.5(-3) cm. Flowers: sepals ascending to spreading, 3-4 × 1-1.5 mm; petals (8-)10-13 × 4.5-6 mm, claw minute or absent; filaments 3.5-6 mm; anthers 1-1.3 mm. Fruits oblong to subglobose, subquadrangular, with 4 irregularly dentate wings, 4-loculed, (0.8-)0.9-1.3(-1.4) cm × 5-6.5 mm; style 3.5-5(-6) mm. Seeds 3 or 4 per fruit, 2-3.5 mm. 2n = 14.
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A cabbage family herb. It is an annual plant. It is rough and hairy. The leaves have lobes along the side. The edges are wavy. The flowers are yellow. The petals are notched. The fruit is about 1 cm long and has toothed wings on the angles. It is square in cross section.
A hispid and glandular European annual or biennial, is locally intr. in Pa. and Va. It has pet 8–13 mm and 4-winged frs 10–12 mm.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
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OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It usually grows on untilled and poor soils.
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Fields, roadsides and disturbed areas, usually on rather poor soils.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

The leaves are used in vegetable soups. The young leaves are also eaten as a salad.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves roots stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Bunias erucago habit picture by benoit T (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago habit picture by francois tissot (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago habit picture by Manuel Barón (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Bunias erucago leaf picture by Gossa Farrah (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago leaf picture by macho María (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago leaf picture by Arianna Mariani (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Bunias erucago flower picture by Pacheco Imanol (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago flower picture by Lorente María (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago flower picture by Stéphane Mars (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Bunias erucago fruit picture by Stéphane Mars (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago fruit picture by Manon Bounous (cc-by-sa)
Bunias erucago fruit picture by Llandrich anna (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Bunias erucago world distribution map, present in France and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279698-1
WFO ID wfo-0000574733
COL ID 695NC
BDTFX ID 11445
INPN ID 86969
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Myagrum erucago Myagrum asperum Erucago brachyptera Erucago campestris Erucago dentata Erucago glandulosa Bunias arvensis Bunias tricornis Bunias vulgaris Crucifera erucago Erucago macroptera Erucago monspeliaca Erucago monspeliensis Erucago runcinata Erucago arvensis Erucago aspera Bunias brachyptera Myagrum clavatum Bunias aspera Bunias macroptera Bunias cristata Erucago erucago Bunias erucago
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