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  • COMMON NAME: Purple
  • ARABIC: يلبن
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Vernonia arabica F.G. Davies
  • SYNONYMS: Vernonia atriplicifolia
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
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://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2856477323 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

Grey-green, hirsute or wolly shrub, up to 35cm high. Stem appressed-canescent, richly branched near the base. Leaves few, much variable in size and shape, about 1 cm long and 5-8 mm broad in lower region; upper less broader and smaller, ovate to rhombate, with short petioles. Flowers head whitish-purple, about 1 cm in diameter, numerous on slender peduncles in axillary and terminal cymes. Achenes 2-3 mm long, strongly ribbed, attenuate at base, densely white-pubescent. Pappus persistent, 2-rows, setaceous.  

Flowering from February to May.
wadis and gravely foothills.
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