Arabian Scurfpea / عوينة /

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

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

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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

Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-31. <temperate.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Bituminaria+bituminosa
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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).
Zorkot. Husein Ali. (2015). A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Hima Fakiha and the Adjoining Region.
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.
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
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 (2025). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/479 accessed via barari.org on 6/28/2025.