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  • COMMON NAME: Crotalaria
  • ARABIC: نزاع
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Crotalaria persica ( Burm.f. ) Merrill
  • SYNONYMS: C. furfuracea Boiss.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • 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.

Perennial leafless shrub, up to 60 cm high. Branches arising more or less at right angles ending in spines hairy. Leaf trifoliate when present, petiole 3-2 cm long; terminal leaflets 2.5-3.5 cm long, 3-6 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, densely pubescent on both sides, larger than the lateral. Raceme many flowered. pedicel 3-5 mm long, hairy. calyx 3-5 mm long, hairy. corolla longer than calyx; standard clawed, violet, hairy; wings yellow. Pod 5-8 mm long, 3-6 mm broad pubescent, with persistent style, bilocular, each half 2-seeded.  

Flowering from January to March.
Sandy desert, dunes, wadis and gravelly places.