| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Vernonia arabica F.G.Davis |
| Bibliography | Kew Bull. 32: 775 (1978) |
| Native Range | Somalia, Arabian Peninsula |
| Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 1000-2000m |
| Description | grey hirsute, leaves evergreen, alternate, shortly petiolate, rhombic, ca. 1cm, irregularly coarsely dentate, green, capitula in corymb, involucre ovoid |
| Size | 15-25cm |
| Color | pale violet |
| Bloom | spring, early summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 18-24°C cuttings in late summer |
| Territory | 2 Africa 24 Northeast Tropical Africa (SOM Somalia) 3 Asia-Temperate 35 Arabian Peninsula (GST Gulf States, OMA Oman, YEM Yemen) |