Conopodium majus: plant details

Characteristics

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stem is smooth and slender curving. It grows 1 m tall. The leaves are much divided. The flowers are small and white. They are in flat topped groups at the top of the stem. It has a rounded 'nut' or tuberous root under the ground. It can be 2.5 cm across.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

barochory

Mature width (meter)

0.1 - 0.5

Mature height (meter)

0.3 - 0.4

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in fields and woodlands. It grows in hardiness zone 6.

More

Woods, hedgerows and fields. It is never found on alkaline soils.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The tubers are sliced and lightly fried and added to salads. They can also be boiled or roasted.

Uses	food
Edible	roots tubers
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
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Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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