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

  1. Zorkot. Husein Ali. (2015). A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Hima Fakiha and the Adjoining Region.
  2. Machaka Houri, N., Houri, A.(2014). Wild Flowers of Lebanon with Special Focus on Key Biodiversity Areas.Beirut:Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  3. Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-31. <temperate.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Bituminaria+bituminosa
  4. Mashjar Juthour.(2017). Palestinian Wildflower Pocket Guide(English and Arabic)
  5. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  6. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  7. Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
  8. 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.”
  9. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
  10. 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.

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