عضيض مريري

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves forming a rosette, oblanceolate to pinnatifid, 5–15 × 1–3 cm, with toothed or lobed margins; cauline leaves smaller, sessile, clasping the stem. Surfaces rough with stiff hairs.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula solitary, terminal on long, hollow peduncles. Involucre cylindrical to campanulate, 10–20 mm long, with several series of bracts, outer bracts short and appressed, inner longer, hairy. Ligulate florets numerous, bright yellow, turning brownish with age; each floret bisexual, with five-toothed limb and inferior ovary. Receptacle naked.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes dimorphic — outer achenes short, ribbed, without pappus; inner achenes elongated, beaked, ribbed, crowned by a plumose pappus of fine white bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers from February to May; fruits mature from April to June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Frequent throughout Lebanon — coastal plains, Beqaa Valley, and lower mountain slopes; recorded by Mouterde from Beirut, Barouk, Zahlé, and Jezzine.

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Yemen (POWO).

Introduced into: California, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Uruguay, Victoria, Western Australia (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

200 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual or biennial herb, 10–50 cm tall, with erect to ascending, branched stems exuding milky latex when cut. Plant hispid to densely hairy, especially on leaves and involucres.

دورة الحياة

حولية، ثنائية الحول

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Urospermum picroides

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.