Plants 60--90 cm tall, with long appressed grayish hairs. Stems unbranched, often with axillary dichasia above. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 4--13 cm × (2--)5--10 mm, midvein prominent, base slightly connate, apex acute. Pedicel very long. Calyx tube 1.2--1.5 cm, abaxially villous; teeth 2--3 cm. Petal limbs pink, 1.4--1.8 cm, shorter than calyx teeth; claw white, narrowly cuneate; limb dark red, obovate, emarginate. Stamens and styles exserted. Capsule ovoid, 1.2--1.8 cm, slightly longer than calyx. Seeds black, ovoid or reniform, 2.5--3 mm, with prominent acute tubercles. Fl. Jun--Aug, fr. Jul--Sep. 2n = 24, 48.
Stem to 1 m, thinly hairy; lvs linear or lanceolate, 8–12 cm × 5–10 mm; fls reddish, solitary at the ends of the branches, on pedicels to 2 dm; cal-tube 12–18 mm, elliptic-ovoid, the lobes 2–4 cm, lance-linear, acute or acuminate; pet 2–3 cm, oblanceolate, retuse; fr 14–18 mm; 2n=48. Native of Europe, widely established as a weed of grainfields and waste places, most abundant in the n. part of our range. July–Sept.
30–90 cm hoch, oben verzweigt, dicht anliegend seidig behaart. Blätter schmal-lanzettlich bis lineal. Blüten einzeln am Ende der Zweige. Kronblätter violettrot, 2–4 cm lang, vorn gestutzt oder ausgerandet, lang stielartig verschmälert, oh
6–8. Getreidefelder, Brachfelder, Schuttplätze, kollin-montan(-subalpin). CH, z.T. angesät.
| Name | Language | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| agrostema | Portuguese | ||
| Flur-seghel | Raeto-Romance | CH |
|
| Kornrade | German | CH |
|
| Common corncockle, nielle |
| ||
| Gittaione comune | Italian | CH |
|
| Nielle des blés | French | CH |
|
