Class: | Magnoliopsida |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Acroptilon |
Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
Scientific name: | Acroptilon repens (L.) DC. |
Herbar: | list records |
Description: | Creeping roots usually dark brown or black, with scaly adventitious buds. Stems ± cobwebby-tomentose. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline often deciduous by flowering, blades oblong, 4–15 cm; mid and distal linear to linear-lanceolate or oblong, 1–7 cm. Involucres 9–17 mm, loosely cobwebby. |
Comments: | The weed is extremely harmful. It reduces crop yields and quality, as well as pasture productivity. Antropophilic distributed in Kazachstan (Veseloba P. 2017) |
Habitat: | on clay soils, tolerates saline soils. |