Crepis sancta

الوصف النباتي

Basionym and synonyms: Hieracium sanctum L.; Lagoseris sancta (L.) K.Malý; Pterotheca sancta (L.) K.Koch.

Habit and stems: Annual, 10–30 cm tall, covered with very short, white papillose hairs. Stems slender, branching in their upper part.

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves arranged in a rosette, oblong, toothed or more or less lyrate, narrowing into a petiole. Stem leaves reduced to small, linear, bristle-like scales.

الأزهار

Flower heads: Capitula 8–12 mm. Outer involucral bracts short, triangular-lanceolate and distinctly margined, forming an involucel. Inner bracts linear, three to four times longer, becoming keeled in fruit, and either glabrous or glandular-hairy.

الثمار والبذور

Fruits: Achenes of two forms: the inner ones cylindrical and ribbed; the marginal ones varying in shape and development of the wings between Mouterde’s subspecies, as detailed below.

مواسم النبات

الإزهار

Flowering: December–May.

الانتشار الموثق

Historical Lebanese localities: Under subsp. sancta : Saida; between Saida and Qalaat ech-Chekif; Khaldé; Dékouané; Beirut; Hazmiyé; Hadeth railway station; Dbayé; mouth of the Qadicha; north of Damour; Bikfaya; Terbol village; Roueissat; Antoura; Akkar mountains and plain; Zahlé. Under subsp. obovata : Baalbeck.

Historical Syrian localities: Under subsp. sancta : below Saïdnaya; Damascus–Mezzé and Mezzé; Marj; Jabal Qasyoun; Dmeir; Bhamra; Laqbé; Hama; Homs; between Homs and Palmyra; Qaryatein; Ain el-Walb. Under subsp. obovata : Djerablous; Aleppo; between Homs and Tell Kalakh; Jabal Abou Ata; Jabal Dmeir; Jabal el-Qorn; between Mnine and Saïdnaya; Slenfé; Abou Tcheri; Ain Diwar; Soueida; Mezraa; Palmyra; south of Qaryatein.

Recorded location: Tannourine.

Native range: Europe to the Mediterranean and western Himalaya, and the Arabian Peninsula, according to POWO; Lebanon-Syria is included in the native range.

Introduced into: Central European Russia, Nepal and Poland, according to POWO.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Habit and stems: Annual, 10–30 cm tall, covered with very short, white papillose hairs. Stems slender, branching in their upper part.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Crepis sancta

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.