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  • COMMON NAME: velcro plant
  • ARABIC: لصيق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Forsskaolea tenacissima L.
  • SYNONYMS: F. cossonana
  • FAMILY: URTICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:854046-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Honey nectar plants.
Perennial herb with hispid or appressed-woolly hairs, 20-60 cm high. Stems erect or ascending simple or branching. Leaves ovate-orbicular to rhombic-ovate 1-3 cm long, and 0.5-2.5 cm broad, short-petioled, cuneate at base, coarsely dentate-serrate toward apex, upper surface green hispid and white-woolly at lower; stipules hispid at margins. Flowers subsessile 1-4 in cluster, axillary. Involucral bracts of 3-5 lobes lanceolate, acute, silky hispid. Female flowers few, naked. Ovary 1-ovuled, ellipsoidal with filiform hairy stigma. Achenes compressed, fleecy. Flowering from March-June.
Mountains and wadi sides near water.
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