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  • COMMON NAME: Golden Samphire
  • ARABIC: مرار
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Inula crithmoides L.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • 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. http://www.riservacapogallo.it/em_portfolios/inula-crithmoides-l/ https://flora-on.pt/?q=Inula+crithmoides
Glabrous, subshrub, woody at base, 30-70 cm high. Stems erect or ascending, leafy. Leaves fleshy, green, sessile, linear or oblanceolate, wntire or 3-dentate at apex, 1-4 cm long, 2-5 mm wide. Peduncles elongated, thickened above. Heads radiate, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, solitary or in lax corymbs. Involucre 1-1.5 cm broad; involucral bracts glabrous, acuminate. Ray-florets about twice as long as involucre. Achenes 2-3 mm long, ribbed, pubescent. Pappus of simple hairs, free at base. Flowering from March to July.
Saline-sandy soil or sabkha ground.
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