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  • COMMON NAME: prickly golden fleece
  • ARABIC: عضيده
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Urospermum picroides (L.) Schmidt
  • SYNONYMS: Tragopogon pircroides
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley
  • 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:257067-1/images https://www.floraofqatar.com/urospermum_picroides.htm
Erect, hispid, annual herb, 15-35 cm high. Stems simple, sparsely branched, 3-5 headed. Lower leaves petiolate, oblong-spathulate, lyrate 3-12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; cauline leaves smaller, oblong, dentate, sessile, acute, auriculate-clasping. Heads 1-2 cm long, yellow, solitary, terminal on peduncles, up to 20 cm long or more. Involucral bracts 1-2 cm long, lanceolate, acute, connate below, often setose. Achenes baked 7-12 mm long, will bulbous base. Pappus hairs silky, white, plumose, united below into a ring. Flowering from February to April.
Wadis, hills, roadsides, fields and waste places.
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