Anthemis hyalina

Family |

Asteraceae

DC.

(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. CCXXV nº 4; 1983)

Life-form & habit: Greyish, appressed-hirsute annual with often numerous, slightly thickened, branched, prostrate to ascending stems, 20–40 cm tall.
Leaves: Ovate in outline, petiolate, tripinnatisect into very small, crowded, oblong, acute lobules.
Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles long and thickened at maturity. Capitula variable in size, 5–10 mm without ligules. Bracts ovate to orbicular, very obtuse, broadly scarious with brown-tinted, shiny and somewhat lacerate margins. Receptacle hemispherical. Paleae lanceolate, keeled, and gradually tapering to a point slightly shorter than the disc. Marginal flowers with white, elliptic ligules equaling or slightly exceeding the disc; disc florets with cylindrical tubes.
Fruit: Achenes very smooth, pyramidal, acute, angular, not grooved, and truncate at apex.
Phenology: Flowers from April to June.
Habitat & elevation: Rocky and semi-arid places.
Lebanese distribution: Ct. Tripoli; Mi. Qrayyé, ‘Amiq; Mm. Dahr el-Baïdar, Sofar, Sannine, Jabal Kneissé, Hasroun, Tannourine, Cèdres de Hadeth, Cèdres, Ehden, Col de Jezzine; Ve. Yammouné, Jabal ech-Cha‘ara, Ouadi el-Arayech, Zahlé; Met. Rayak, Ksara, Chtaura; A.L. Nebi Chiite.
Native range: Native to: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye (POWO)
Introduced into: Belgium, France, Germany, Morocco (POWO)