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  • COMMON NAME: Daisy lawn, Fog grass.
  • ARABIC: بربين الجدي، بليحة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene
  • SYNONYMS: Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.
  • FAMILY: VERBENACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:194567-2/general-information#vernacular-names 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. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant plant, used in folk medicine.
Perennial, creeping herb, usually 20-60 cm long. Stem prostrate, mostly rooting at nodes, branched from the base, finely appressed-pubescent. Leaves spathulate, oblanceolate or obovate, 10-25 mm long, 5-12 mm wide, dentate at upper margins, with clear nerves, tapering gradually below to a short petiole. Peduncles long, solitary, axillary. Spikes dense, many flowered, ovoid to cylindrical, 8-20 mm long. Flowers minute, white or purplish, supported by small bracts. Calyx bilobed, membranous, keels, puberuluscent. Corolla 2-3 mm long, with oblong lobes. Fruit 1-1.5 mm long, globose-oblong, dry splitting into 2, 1-seeded. Flowering from September to March.
Weed of wet, salty areas, in fields and gardens.
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