Spergula


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Related to Spergula: Spergula arvensis, spurrey, corn spurry
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Noun1.Spergula - small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry
caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
corn spurrey, corn spurry, Spergula arvensis - small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
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Effects of intercropping with Spergula arvensis on pests of Brussels sprouts.
Remains of wild taxa, such as pale persicaria (Persicaria lapathifolia), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare), wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), bladder campion (Silene vulgaris), and corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis) were the most common weeds in the latrine samples and presumably stem from the surrounding disturbed habitats at the sea fortress.
Taxa names follow Flora Iberica (Castroviejo & al., 19862016) except in the case of Spergula rimarum where we follow the criteria of Puente & al.
spinosa) and Lavandula subnuda) and small annuals (e.g., Erodium neuradifolium, Plantago afra, Senecio breviflorus, Sisymbrium erysimoides and Spergula fallax).
Novedad provincial que no sorprende encontrar en niveles de cumbres de los montes oretanos ya que forma parte del numeroso grupo de hemicriptofitos de area iberica hercinica y carpetana principalmente, que aparecen puntualmente en estas montanas y en el bloque de la Sierra de San Vicente, y de los cuales se incluyen en este trabajo otros ejemplos (Hieracium castellanum, Lepidium heterophyllum, Trisetum ovatum, Spergula morisonii).
Accordingly Chenopodium album, Chenopodium murale, Convolvulus arvensis, Melilotus indica, Anagallis arvensis, Cirsium arvensis, Coronopus didymus, Lathyrus aphaca, Medicago polymorpha, Polygonum plebejum, Rumex dentatus, Gallium aparine, Cnicus arvensis, Ephedra spp., Cynodon dactylon, Cenchrus setigerus, Trianthema partulacastrum, Anagalis arvensis, Trianthema pentandra, Fumaria indica, Centaurea iberica, Carthamus oxyacantha, Asphodelus tenuifolius, Datura fastuosa, Vicia sativa, Spergula arvensis, Cirsium arvensis, Medicago polymorpha, Trigonella monantha, Tribulus terrestris, Phalaris minor, Avena fatua.