Spanish Broom / الشيّح / سِتّ خديجة /

النويشلة / بَدَسكان / رتم اسلي / شيح العرب / شيح رومي / وزّال / وَزّال أسَلي /

Spartium junceum L.

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Edibility and usage

Edibility
Unknown
Blooming period
April to June
Seed collection period
July to October
Potential medicinal uses
  • Analgesic
  • Anthelmintic
  • Carminative
  • Emetic
  • Expectorant
  • Galactogogue
  • Tonic
  • Diuretic

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Yellow
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Phanerophyte shrub

Scientifc data

Genus
Spartium
Family
Fabaceae
Wikidata item
Q910358
GBIF Item
Spartium junceum L. (5355395)

References

  1. Machaka Houri, N., Houri, A.(2014). Wild Flowers of Lebanon with Special Focus on Key Biodiversity Areas.Beirut:Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  2. Spartium junceum L. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-10.
  3. Houri, A., Machaka Houri, N. (2001). photographic guide to wild flowers of Lebanon. Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  4. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  5. عراف، شكري. النباتات في الكتاب المقدس. عكا: مركز الدراسات القروية، 2009.
  6. Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
  7. عراف، شكري. الأرض، الأنسان، والجهد. الجليل: جليل للتجليد، 1993.
  8. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
  9. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  10. عراف، ش.،عمر،ر.،مخول، س.(1999).مساهمة في دراسة نباتات البلاد(الحلقة الثانية).ترشيحا:مركز الدراسات القروية.(عربي)

Citation

Spartium junceum L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/637 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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