Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Ononis stenophylla (Boiss.) Buxb. trib. Trifolieae |
Bibliography | Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 76: 56 (1926) |
Native Range | Libya to Syria |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | sandy grassland |
Description | glandular-hirsute, viscid, intensely ramose, leaves petiolate, ternate, narrowly linear, complicate, 5-12mm, acute, flowers solitary, to 2cm long, sepals lanceolate |
Size | 10-35cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | spring, early summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Ononis natrix var. stenophylla Boiss. Ononis natrix ssp. stenophylla (Boiss.) Širj. |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt, LBY Libya) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) |