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  • COMMON NAME: Bucks horn groundsel
  • ARABIC: صفيره، زملوق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Senecio glaucus L.
  • SYNONYMS: S. desfontainei , S.coronopifolius.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ajman , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Toxicity: poisonous. Rizk & El-Ghazaly state that the plant contains alkaloids jacobine and seneciphylline, and is toxic to animals and humans
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. 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. 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. https://www.floraofqatar.com/senecio_glaucus.htm
Honey nectar plants.
Annual herb, 10-25 cm high, glabrescent. Stems erect, branched, the branches spreading. Leaves slightly fleshy, revolute-margined, pinnatisect into linear segments; lower ones tapering to short petiole, upper ones half clasping. Heads 1-1.5 cm in diameter, in terminal or axillary, corymbose inflorescence. Involucre glabrous, the inner bracts green, linear, acuminate, the outer very-short. Ray florets yellow to orange, a little shorter than involucre. Achenes about 2 mm long, cylindrical, somewhat tapering at base, ribbed, dark brown, appressed hairy. Pappus caducous of simple, white hairs, about 4 mm long. Flowering from February-March.
Sandy places near the coast.
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