Code
ANCIT
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual/ Biennial
Geographic area
Mediterranea
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Anchusa amoena (Gaertn.) J. F. Gmel. |
| synonym | Anchusa azurea Mill. |
| synonym | Anchusa azurea var. kurdica (Gusul.) D.F. Chamberlain |
| synonym | Anchusa azurea var. lucida (Vitman) Gams |
| synonym | Anchusa azurea var. macrocarpa (Boiss. & Hohen.) D.F. Chamberlain |
| synonym | Anchusa azurea var. macrophylla (Lam.) Sauvage & Vindt |
| synonym | Anchusa biceps Vest |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. angustifolia St.-Lag. |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. azurea (Mill.) Rouy |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. grandiflora Jekyll & E.T.Cook |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. kurdica Gusul. |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. macrocarpa (Boiss. & Hohen.) Gusul. |
| synonym | Anchusa italica var. paniculata (Aiton) Rouy |
| synonym | Anchusa lucida Vitm. |
| synonym | Anchusa macrocarpa Boiss. & Hohen. |
| synonym | Anchusa macrophylla Lam. |
| synonym | Anchusa officinalis Gouan |
| synonym | Anchusa paniculata Ait. |
| synonym | Buglossum amoenum Gaertn. |
| synonym | Buglossum caeruleum Pers. |
| synonym | Buglossum elatum Moench |
| synonym | Buglossum italicum (Retz.) Tausch |
| synonym | Buglossum paniculatum (Ait.) Tausch |
| synonym | Buglossum vulgare Tausch |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Seedling
Cotyledons elliptic-pointed, 20-25 x 12-15 mm, thick, firm, sharply veined, covered with appressed hairs, briefly petiolate. Primordial leaves elliptic-oblong, long attenuated on the petiole and abruptly pointed at the apex, hispid with rough white hairs. The hypocotyl axis is short and thick. Seedling dark green.
Adult plant
Anchusa italica is an annual, biennial or perennial, upright herbaceous plant, overwintering in a rosette. The stem is very branched, hispid with stiff hairs, reaching 1 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate with entire margin, slightly wavy, the upper ones clasping. Flowers short-stalked, arranged in panicles of uniparous cymes. Calyx divided almost to the base, bristling with white hairs. Corolla fairly large, blue, purple or pink. Fruit a group of four greyish, elongated, reticulate-tuberculate achenes, 6-8 x 2-3 mm.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
Name(s)
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
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Algeria: Anchusa italica germinates in autumn-winter; flowering takes place from March to May.
Morocco : Achusa italica flowers from March to June.
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Reproduction
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Anchusa italica multiplies by seed, mainly spread by ants.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Hollow stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
sessile
with petiole
Sheathing leaf
Fruit type
Achene
Achene type
Achene trigonous
Cotyledon type
elliptic
Lamina base
attenuate
Lamina margin
undulate
entire
Lamina apex
acute
Upperface pilosity
Dense hairy
Upperface hair type
Long
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Lowerface hair type
Long
Simple leaf type
Lamina linear
Lamina elliptic
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
pennate
Flower color
Pinkish
Blue
Purple
Inflorescence type
Scorpiod cyme
Stem pilosity
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Hispidus
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Physiology
Anchusa italica is a C3 species.
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Ecology
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Algeria: Anchusa italica is a common species in the cereal systems (winter cereals-fallow) of Algeria, which is confirmed by the profusion of vernacular names. Preference for deep clayey-marly soils, more or less tirsified. These soils do not dry well and dry out very quickly at the surface, while remaining moist at depth, making it difficult to use various cultivation techniques. The imposing mass of weeds that can develop there is very detrimental to cereal crops.
Morocco: Anchusa italica is a very common species, which grows as a ruderal and messicolous plant in pastures, crops, wasteland and open woodland on well-watered plains and mountains, from 0 to 2500 m altitude.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
terrestrial
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Description
Origin
Anchusa italica is native to the Euro-Siberian-Mediterranean-Iranian-Turanic region.
Worldwide distribution
This species has been introduced into South Africa, the USA, China, Australia and New Zealand.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Algeria: Anchusa italica is a minor "weed". Uncommon and not very abundant, it does not generally constitute a nuisance for the crop. However, it can sometimes be harmful in a localised way in case of presence in patches of high density.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
Local control
Algeria: Hoeing of Anchusa italica seedlings or uprooting of adult individuals is all that is usually needed.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113203-1
- EPPO https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/ANCIT
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000533562
- Kazi Tani, C., et al. (2021). "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/anchusa-azurea.html
Information Listing > References
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113203-1
- EPPO https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/ANCIT
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000533562
- Kazi Tani, C., et al. (2021). "AdvenAlg 1.0 Identification et connaissance des principales adventices d'Algérie méditerranéenne." Al Yasmina, Revue de Botanique 2(3): 1-187.
- Flora Maroccana (Dobignard A.) https://www.floramaroccana.fr/anchusa-azurea.html
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Anchusa%2520italica
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Boraginales |
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Genus | Anchusa |
| Species | Anchusa italica Retz. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
