Family |
Asteraceae
Cichorium pumilum
Jacq.
Cichorium pumilum Jacq.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. CCCXIII nº 2; 1983)
= Cichorium divaricatum Schousboe
Life-form & habit: Plant highly variable in size (30–100 cm or more), sometimes dwarf or nearly stemless near the coast; glabrous, much-branched.
Leaves: Basal leaves denticulate, toothed, or pinnatifid; cauline leaves very small, linear.
Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula sessile, clustered in leaf axils, solitary and pedunculate at branch and stem tips.
Bracts: Outer bracts of the involucre obtuse, densely ciliate, eglandular.
Flowers: Corolla three times longer than the involucre.
Fruit: Pappus bristles up to half the length of the achene body.
Phenology: Flowers from May to June.
Habitat & elevation: Fallow land, vineyards, cultivated soils.
Lebanese distribution: Ct. Saïda, north of Saïda, Beirut, Ras Chekka, Tripoli; Met. Ta'naïl, Zahlé.
Syrian distribution: Ct. Tartous; Sy. Abou Douhour, Hama; Haur. Ezra‘a; J.D. Soueida; Sud. Quneitra.
Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Western Sahara, Xinjiang.
Introduced into: Belgium, Germany, Poland