كرز مفترش

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Ovate to orbicular, strongly dentate at the margin, green above, canescent-tomentose beneath, 5–10 mm long.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers sessile. Calyx with a long tubular base (3–10 mm), reddish, lobes short. Corolla slightly longer than calyx, pink.

الثمار والبذور

Fruits: Drupe ovoid-globose, fleshy, 5–6 mm, red, edible though small, sour but refreshing, often consumed by shepherds and hikers.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–May; fruits during summer.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Jisr-el-Hajar, Hasroun, Les Cèdres, Jabal Barouk, above Ma‘asser, Cèdres de Barouk, ‘Aïn Zehalta, Col de Zahlé, Forêt d’Ehden, Jabal Sannine, Haut-Makmel, Col des Cèdres, Hermon, and ‘Aïnata to ‘Aïn Hazir.

Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon (above Bloudane, Jabal Abou-l-Haoua, Jabal Halimé).

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Corsica, East Aegean Islands, France, Greece, Iraq, Crete, Lebanon–Syria, Morocco, NW Balkan Peninsula, Sardinia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

1600 m، 1200 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Low, much-branched shrub from the base, with prostrate or tortuous branches, sometimes slightly ascending, 20–80 cm tall.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Prunus prostrata

الفصيلة

وردية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Amelanchier parviflora

لوز مر

Amygdalus korschinskii

Crataegus × sinaica

Potentilla geranioides subsp. syriaca