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Torilis arvensis (Huds.) Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 1: 265. 1821
Caucalis arvensis Huds. Fl. Angl. 98. 1762.
Plants slender, 3-10 dm. high, divaricately branched, appressed-hispid throughout; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate in general outline, 2-3-pinnate, or the upper simply pinnate, the leaflets ovate to linear-lanceolate, 5-60 mm. long, 2-20 mm. broad, acute or acuminate, regularly incised or divided; peduncles 2-12 cm. long, longer than the leaves; involucre wanting, or of a single small bract ; involucel of several subulate bractlets longer than the pedicels; rays 2-10, subequal to somewhat unequal, 5-25 mm. long; pedicels 1-4 mm. long; fruit ovoid-oblong, 3-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, the mericarps densely covered with uncinate bristles, these spreading almost at right angles and about as long as the width of the fruit.
Typr locality: "Habitat in arvis, cretaceis frequens," England, collector unknown. Distribution: Southern and central Europe; introduced in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
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Torilis arvensis
Add the synonym: Ozotrix helvetica Raf. Good Book 54. 1840.
CAUCALIS.
Add the synonym: Pullipes Raf. Good Book 54. 1840.
293 112. DAUCUS.
Add the synonym: Lophioplis Raf. New Fl. 4: 26, as subg. 1838.
Remove the synonym: Babiron Raf. New Fl. 4: 23. 1838.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY