Rhagadiolus stellatus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves in a rosette, oblong to oblanceolate, 30–90 × 6–20 mm, pinnatifid or dentate; cauline leaves smaller, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, and entire or coarsely toothed. Indumentum sparse and variable.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula numerous, solitary on slender peduncles, forming a lax, paniculate inflorescence. Involucre cylindrical, 8–15 mm long; inner bracts linear-lanceolate, outer ones shorter, spreading at fruiting. Ligules bright yellow, 7–10 mm long, sometimes flushed red beneath; all florets fertile. Receptacle naked.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes heteromorphic — outer ones short, thick, and beakless; inner achenes elongated, narrowed into a slender beak bearing a pappus of soft, white hairs; surface transversely rugose or finely reticulate.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from March to June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Common and widespread from the coast to mid-elevations. Reported by Mouterde (1969) from Beirut , Aley , Zahlé , Barouk , Baskinta , and Rashaya . Especially abundant in dry fields, foothills, and rocky slopes of Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa.

Native to: Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe (POWO).

Introduced into: California (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual herb, 10–45 cm tall, slender and branched from the base, forming loose tufts. Stems erect or ascending, angular, glabrous or finely pubescent, containing milky latex.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Rhagadiolus stellatus

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.