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  • COMMON NAME: Blue haze, Moneywort, Wild evolvulus.
  • ARABIC: عيفال
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Evolvulus alsinoides (L.) L.
  • SYNONYMS: Convolvulus alsinoides L.
  • FAMILY: CONVOLVULACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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:267957-1/general-information#vernacular-names
Perennial herb, prostrate, woody at base, with herbaceous shoots, pubescent. Leaves linear-oblong or wide-elliptic, 1-2 cm long, subsessile, acute to obtuse basally and apically pubescent. Peduncles 1-3 flowered, slender, spreading, mostly equaling the leaves. Sepals 2-3 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, hairy. Corolla blue or white, 3-8 mm across. Capsule globose, 4-valved, glabrous, seeds black, smooth. Flowering from February to April.
In desert plantations.
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