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  • COMMON NAME: Safflower
  • ARABIC: عصفر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Carthamus oxyacantha M. Bieb
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • 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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60461534-2/images
Annual herb, 30-40 cm high, puberulus. Stem and branches white, many-branched. Leaves 2-5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously nerved, the lower ones with short prickly teeth, the upper ones half-clasping at base, dentate, with yellow spines at margins and apex. Heads 1.5-2.5 cm across, ovate, solitary, terminal on the stems. Outer involucral bracts exceeding the head, white below, with yellow spines; inner bracts less spiny laterally, entire near base. Florets orange-yellow. Achenes about 4 mm long, without pappus, obovoid, 4-angled, smooth, shining, truncate at the top. Flowering from March to June.
Sandy soil, fallow fields and roadsides.
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