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Picnomon acarna (L.) Cass.

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

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Unknown
Blooming period
July to October
Seed collection period
September to December

Description

Perenniality
Annual
Petal colour
  • Crimson
  • White
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Annual

Scientifc data

Genus
Picnomon Adans.
Family
Asteraceae
Wikidata item
Q2092301
GBIF Item
Picnomon acarna (L.) Cass. (3146150)

References

  1. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  2. Picnomon acarna (L.) Cass. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-07.
  3. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  4. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Picnomon acarna (L.) Cass. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/843 accessed via barari.org on 2/18/2026.

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