Picris


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Noun1.Picris - genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides, bugloss - widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
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Composite constituents : forty-two triterpenoids including eight novel compounds isolated from Picris hieracioides subsp.
Zeng et al., "Zn and Cd hyperaccumulating characteristics of picris divaricata vant," International Journal of Environment and Pollution, vol.
Au niveau de cette axe nous retrouvons du cote positif les especes poacees comme Bromus rubens (2.52), Hordeum murinum (2.34), Picris echioides (2.03) et Plantago lagopus (1.43) indiquant un gradient de therophytisation.
Impaired leaf CO2 diffusion mediates Cd-induced inhibition of photosynthesis in the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Picris divaricata.
Wider studies enabled identification of species such as Achillea millefolium, Artriplex nitens, Chenopodium album, Cirsium arvense, Daucus carota, Matricaria inodora, Picris hieracioides, Sonchus arvensis, Sonchus Asper, Tussilago farfara and Verbascum Thapsus (Ciesielczuk et al., 2011).
murale Other species Picris cyprica [I.sup.+1] [I.sup.+1] Avena barbata subsp.