مرير شاهق

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 5–15 × 1–3 cm, coarsely dentate or lobed; cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate, clasping the stem with auriculate bases. Both surfaces rough with stiff, spreading hairs.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula numerous, borne singly on slender peduncles forming a loose corymbose panicle. Involucre cylindrical, 10–15 mm long, covered with rigid, appressed or spreading bristles. Ligulate florets all yellow, sometimes tinged reddish beneath; outer florets often longer than the inner ones. Receptacle naked.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes dimorphic — outer achenes shorter, rough, and without pappus; inner achenes longer, smooth, with a pappus of numerous fine, white, scabrid bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers from March to June; fruits mature from May to July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Common throughout Lebanon — coastal plains, Beqaa Valley, and lower mountain slopes; recorded by Mouterde from Beirut, Jezzine, Zahlé, and Barouk, extending eastward to the Anti-Lebanon.

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon–Syria, Libya, NW. Balkan Peninsula, Palestine, Poland, Sinai, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe (POWO).

Introduced range: Missouri (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

400 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual or biennial herb, 20–70 cm tall, with an erect, slender, and branched stem exuding milky latex when cut. Plant hispid or bristly, especially along stems and leaves.

دورة الحياة

حولية، ثنائية الحول

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Picris rhagadioloides

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.