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A coastal annual of the eastern Mediterranean. Here u can see its basal leaf.
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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. Here u can see its flowers and seeds.
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Scorzonera syriaca is a perennial herbaceous plant of Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
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Xeranthemum cylindraceum is a beautiful delicate annual. In Israel it is extremely rare and endangered. This picture is misleading because the plant has small flowering heads and very long slender stems.
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This species is common in Mt Hermon, mostly it doesn't have the whitish ligules. Occassionally u can see them, like in this one. Each plant has several to dozens of flowering heads on long stems.
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Crepis pulchra is a rare annual of north Israel.
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actuca 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 and many short spines.
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Scorzonera syriaca is a perennial herbaceous plant of Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
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Xeranthemum cylindraceum is an east Mediterranean annual, blooming in the end of spring. Here u can see its seedling with two first green leaves (cotyledons) and two mature silvery leaves. Locally the plant is endangered.
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This delicate and beautiful annual forms atttractive small carpets.
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A basal leaf of a common perennial.
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Lactuca orientalis (Oriental Letuce) is a perennial plant, growing in the arid parts of the Middle East. It is spiny and much branched. I managed to see a fruiting head, dispersing its tufted seeds.
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Senecio glaucus is common in the Middle east deserts. In also penetrates the coastal sand dunes in Mediterranean Israel and was previously called there Senecio joppensis. Here u can see its empty flowering head much after seed dispersal.
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Xeranthemum squarrosum is a lovely annual blooming in early summer.
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This perennial daisy grows on the coastal sand dunes of the Cape. Its amazing to see how the flowers and leaves emerge from the sand.
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Crepis robertioides is one of the rarest plants in Israel, occurring only in the heights of Mt Hermon, above 2100m. It is a compact perennial with a woody rootstock and many flowering stems.
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Lactuca orientalis is a common perennial in the arid mountains of the Middle East. It is spiny and blooms throughout summer and autumn.
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A small pink flowered groundsel (Senecio), restricted to desert mountains in north Africa and Arabia.
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Zoegea purpurea is a rare least known species from the Arabian deserts. In Israel it is very rare and endangered.
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This carpet-forming daisy is typical for sandy areas, like this sand dune in De Hoop reserve coast.
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Crepis robertioides is a perennial plant of the Middle East High Mts.
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This is one of the commonest weeds of the world. Few know that it is the progenitor of the edible lettuce and that its leaves are normally pointing to the north and south - a natural compass ! Thus avoiding high radiation on lreaf surface and loosing less water.
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Serratula coriacea is a tall summer blooming perennial.
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Zoegea purpurea is a rare least known species from the Arabian deserts. In Israel it is very rare and endangered.