قوص / Slender Safflower / قُرطُم نحيل

قوس / حنا الغزال / عصفر / قرطم

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

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

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Edible
Edible part
  • Young stems
Preparation
  • Raw
Blooming period
May to September
Foraging period
February to April
Seed collection period
August to December

Description

Perenniality
Annual
Petal colour
  • Light blue
Leaf type
  • Dissected
Life form
  • Annual

Scientifc data

Genus
Carthamus L.
Family
Asteraceae
Wikidata item
Q15561182
GBIF Item
Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm. (3138255)

References

  1. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  2. Al-Qura’n, S. A. (2010). Ethnobotanical and ecological studies of wild edible plants in Jordan. Libyan Agriculture Research Center Journal International, 1(4), 231-243.
  3. Hamami, R.(2021).From Crown Anemone to Buchy Bean Caper.Ramallah:A.M. Qattan Foundation.(English and Arabic)
  4. Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-31.
  5. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  6. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/824 accessed via barari.org on 2/18/2026.

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