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  • COMMON NAME: blue pimpernel
  • ARABIC: عين القطوه، عوينه، زريق العين
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Anagallis arvensis L.
  • SYNONYMS: Anagallis coerulea, Lysimachia foemina.
  • FAMILY: PRIMULACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • 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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://www.floraofqatar.com/anagallis_arvensis.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Honey nectar plants. Crushed and applied to soothe skin rash, snakebite and skin ulcers.
Annual, erect or procumbent herb, up to 25 cm high. Stem single or much branched at the base, 4-angled. Leaves 0.7-2.5 cm broad, opposite, sessile, broadly ovate to lanceolate, entire, acute, glabrous, dotted. Peduncles 1-2.5 cm long, slender, erect, longer than leaves. Flowers 0.5-1.0 cm long, blue, rotate. Sepals 0.3-0.6 cm long, narrow lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 0.4-1.0 cm long, obovate, little longer than sepals. with tiny glandular-ciliate teeth. Capsule globose, 0.3-0.5 cm long, with persistent style, circumsessile. Seeds 3-gonous. Flowering from February-May.
Gardens, plantations, wadis and mountains.
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