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Lachnophyllum noeanum is an autumn blooming weed. It used to be common in the fields of Israel, but became endangered with the change of traditional agriculture to modern one.
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This thistle is common in the Mediterranean region, growing mainly in fallow and cultivated fields. When dry it looks like a strange skeleton.
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This is a invasive American species that is now common in sandy areas of coastal Israel, it is common along roadsides and agricultural areas.
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Anthemis hyalina is a rare annual of the arid Middle East. In Israel it is endangered. It is characterized by papery (hyaline) flowering head bracts.
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Cousinia is a huge genus of several hundred species ranging from Central Asia to SW Asia. Cousinia hermonis is one of the most western species in this genus.
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Lachnophyllum noeanum is an autumn blooming weed. It used to be common in the fields of Israel, but became endangered with the change of traditional agriculture to modern one.
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I have found this perennial in the dry rocks of the Anti-Atlas mts, 1700m., above Tafraut
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This is a delicate, very beautiful desert annual. it is common in the Dead Sea area. You can see the sterile radial flowers that are advertizing the whole flowering head and the fertile inner ones. In the fertile flowers you can see how the forked purple style is pushing out the white pollen like toothpaste.
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A rare annual. The outer flowering head bracts are papery.
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Cousinia is a huge genus of several hundred species ranging from Central Asia to SW Asia. Cousinia hermonis is one of the most western species in this genus.
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Lachnophyllum noeanum is an autumn blooming weed. It used to be common in the fields of Israel, but became endangered with the change of traditional agriculture to modern one.
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Scorzonera mollis is a common tuberous plant of the heights of Mt Hermon. Here u can see the typical green flowering head bracts that are covering each other.
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as u can see, I fell in love with this delicate flower.
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A rare annual. The outer flowering head bracts are papery.
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Cousinia moabitica is an endemic perrenial of S Jordan.
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Lactuca aculeata is very close to L. serriola (mother of lettuce). It is a rather rare weed in the Middle East.
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Even in the mountains its seeding time, Here u can see the fruiting head of Scorzonera rigida, a perennial typical to wind swept habitats in the arid Middle East mountains.
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Warionia saharae is a dense shrub, found in western edges of the Sahara in Morocco. It is the only species on the genus that has no close relatives in the daisy plant family.
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A rare annual. The outer flowering head bracts are papery.
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Crassocephalum crepidioides is quite common in Nanling Reserve. Here you can see 2 flowering heads and 1 fruiting head.
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Lactuca aculeata is very close to L. serriola (mother of lettuce). It is a rather rare weed in the Middle East. As u can see, it has entire leaves andmany short spines.
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Scorzonera schweinfurthii is a desert perennial found in the arid mountains of S Jordan, Saudi-Arabia and Egypt.
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Xeranthemum cylindraceum is a rare annul in Israel, it blooms only now after all other annuals are long dry.
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Anthemis melampodina is a desert annual. Often is has a creeping habit as seen here. Irs delicate stems and modest look form its beauty.