Nigella unguicularis

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, 2–3 times pinnatisect with filiform segments, giving the plant a finely divided, feathery aspect; lower leaves on short petioles, upper sessile and reduced in size.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Solitary, terminal, on long peduncles. Flowers large (3–5 cm across), showy, pale blue, bluish-white, or occasionally pinkish. Sepals 5, petaloid, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; petals small, glandular, 2-lobed, forming a nectariferous cup around the stamens. Stamens numerous; carpels 5, free or slightly united at the base, each with a long, recurved style forming characteristic horn-like appendages.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule composed of 5 distinct or slightly connate follicles, each 15–25 mm long, inflated, containing numerous black, roughened seeds.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from April to June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from Mount Lebanon, the Beqaa Valley, and the Anti-Lebanon — notably Zahlé, Dahr el-Baïdar, Barouk, and Ras Baalbeck; often in fallow fields and semi-arid slopes.

Native range: Cyprus, Iraq, Kriti, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

400 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual herb, 20–60 cm tall, glabrous, much-branched above, with slender, erect to ascending stems.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Nigella unguicularis

الفصيلة

حوذانية

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سنارية

Nigella ciliaris

شونيز صحراوي

Nigella deserti

حبة البركة

Nigella arvensis

حوذان إسطنبولي

Ranunculus constantinopolitanus