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Description: Photograph and information on annual woundwort, its morphology, biology, distribution, ecology and economic significance as a weed species.
AgroAtlas - Weeds - Stachys annua L. - Annual Woundwort Family Lamiaceae, genus Stachys L. Stachys neglecta Klok. ex Kossko. It is an annual spring or winter weed. Plant is 15-35 cm tall; stems are simple or ramified, often hairless at base, with soft, short, downwardly directed hairs at top, with denser hairs under inflorescences. Lower leaves are wedge-shaped at base, oblong-ovate, crenate; upper leaves are lanceolate, sharp, serrated; top leaves are reduced, sessile. Bracts are filiform or linear, long-ciliated. Inflorescence is long, spike-shaped; two or three lower whorls are sparse; upper whorls are connivent. Calyx is somewhat hairy; its teeth are triangular-lanceolate, becoming spiniform upward, arcuate, as long as tube. Corolla is whitish-yellowish, two times longer than calyx; upper labia rounded; lower labia has emarginated middle lobe and rounded-ovate lateral lobes. Seeds are widely-ovate, obtuse-trihedral, fine-meshed. The mass of 1000 seeds is 0.75-1.25 g. The maximal fecundity of one plant is 26,400 seeds. Seeds germinate from depths of not more than 6 cm. The flowering period occurs in June-August.
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created: 2005.05.04
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