Arabian Scurfpea / عوينة

حومان زفتي / عوينة زفتية / حومانة قارية / بسوراليا أسفلتية الرائحة

Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H.Stirt.

Leaves, March. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Unknown

Blooming period

March to June

Seed collection period

June to July

Description

Perenniality

Perennial

Petal colour

Light blue
Light purple
White

Leaf type

Compound
Trifoliolate

Life form

Hemicryptophyte

Scientifc data

Genus

Bituminaria

Family

Fabaceae

Wikidata item

Q1251922

GBIF Item

Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H.Stirt. (2952882)

References

Zorkot. Husein Ali. (2015). A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Hima Fakiha and the Adjoining Region.
Machaka Houri, N., Houri, A.(2014). Wild Flowers of Lebanon with Special Focus on Key Biodiversity Areas.Beirut:Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-31. <temperate.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Bituminaria+bituminosa
Mashjar Juthour.(2017). Palestinian Wildflower Pocket Guide(English and Arabic)
Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
Ali-Shtayeh, Mohammed S., Rana M. Jamous, Jehan H. Al-Shafie’, Wafa’ A. Elgharabah, Fatemah A. Kherfan, Kifayeh H. Qarariah, Isra’ S. Khdair, et al. “Traditional Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants Used in Palestine (Northern West Bank): A Comparative Study.”
Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
Hinnawi, Nadeen Sadeq Abdullah. “An Ethnobotanical Study of Wild Edible Plants in the Northern West Bank,” 2010.

Citation

Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H.Stirt. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/479 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.