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  • COMMON NAME: Blumea
  • ARABIC: حشيش الفرس
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Blumea bovei (DC.) Vatke.
  • SYNONYMS: Conyza bovei DC.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi
  • 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:185512-1/images
Perennial herb, 20-60 cm high, sparsely softly hairy or glabrous, divaricate branches spreading from the base, erect or ascending, leafy. Leaves 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute, often dentate or emtire. Heads in lax corymbs, on long peduncles. Florets pale yellow. pubescent, 4-6 mm long, outer bracts shorter and spreading. Achenes small, less than 1 mm long, pappus soft, 1-row, about 5 mm long. Flowering from March to August.
Near springs in wadies, or near Falajs.
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