| Ononis natrix | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Ononis |
| Species: | O. natrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Ononis natrix | |
Ononis natrix, the yellow restharrow [1] or shrubby rest-harrow, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae.
Perennial, 50–100 cm, ligneous at base, completely viscousglandular. Leaves with three oblong and denticulate leaflets. Flowers in terminal leafy racemes. Peduncles long, one-flowered, often aristate. Calyx lobes much longer than tube. Corolla 15 mm, twice as long as calyx, yellow. Standard with red brown striations.
April–July.
Sandy and stony places on limestone.
Coast, lower and middle mountains, Beqaa, South, Antilebanon.
Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Circum-Mediterranean.
Onônis or anônis is the Greek name of a Mediterranean species of the genus. It is sometimes interpreted as formed of onos, donkey. and onesis. happiness. for certain rest-harrows were thought to please to donkeys. Nalrix is the name of a water snake, given to a plant whose pollen tube discharges ciliated antherozoids which swim ( just like a water snake) before entering the embryo sac.
The branches of this plant. known in Arabic by the name lissayq, are used in the preparation of raisin. [2]
Hypericum calycinum is a species of prostrate or low-growing shrub in the flowering plant family Hypericaceae. Widely cultivated for its large yellow flowers, its names as a garden plant include Rose-of-Sharon in Britain and Australia, and Aaron's beard, great St-John's wort, creeping St. John's wort and Jerusalem star. Grown in Mediterranean climates, widely spread in the Strandja Mountains along the Bulgarian and Turkish Black Sea coast, and also in Flanders in Belgium.
Ononis is a large genus of perennial herbs and shrubs from the legume family Fabaceae. The members of this genus are often called restharrows as some species grow as weeds on arable lands whose tough stems would stop the harrow. They are natively distributed in Europe.
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Ononis repens, the common restharrow, is a plant species of the genus Ononis.
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Colchicum szovitsii subsp. brachyphyllum, synonym Colchicum brachyphyllum, is a subspecies of Colchicum szovitsii.
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Berberis libanotica or Berberis cretica is a species of plant in the family Berberidaceae.
Dianthus strictus, known as the wild pink, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Aristolochia delavayi, known as the party-colored birthwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aristolochiaceae.
Matthiola crassifolia, the thick-leaved stock, is a species of plant in the family Brassicaceae.
Sedum hispanicum, the Spanish stonecrop, is a species of plant in the family Crassulaceae.
Eminium spiculatum is a species of plant in the family Araceae.
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Colchicum stevenii, or Steven's meadow saffron, is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. Arabic: سَراجُ الغولة, سُورَنْجان Hebrew: סתוונית היורה
Iris susiana is a species of plant in the family Iridaceae native to Lebanon. This beautiful and big iris, with a span easily reaching twelve centimeters. It grows nowadays in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey where its survival is seriously threatened by excessive picking.
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