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  • COMMON NAME: Bishop's weed, false bishop's weed, bellwort, greater Ammi, lady's lace, false Queen Anne's lace, or lace flower.
  • ARABIC: الخلة، شيح
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ammi majus L
  • SYNONYMS: Aethusa ammi Spreng
  • FAMILY: APIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Fruits (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt)
  • TYPES: Annual
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://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/ammi-majus.html Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
The seeds are diuretic, carminative, stimulant, anti-colic. The drenched seeds are used to treat diseases of the urinary system and stones, for enlargement of the prostate gland, for the treatment of asthma and bronchitis, dilating blood vessels, treating angina pectoris and some diseases of the heart and arteries. Ornamental plant. melliferous plant.

Annual, glabrous, 20-70 cm high. Stems erect, much branched above. Leaves 5-20 cm long, green, ovate in outline, pinnate or bipinnate, segments lanceolate or oval, margin serrate; teeth minute; basal leaves long-petioled, upper leaves less divided. Umbels long-peduncled, 5-12 cm long; fruiting umbels open. Rays 10-25, slender. 

Flowering from March to August.
Cultivated places or roadside.
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