Spiny Restharrow / شِبرِق الشائك /

Tall Spiny Rest-Harrow /

Ononis spinosa L.

Edibility and usage

Edibility
Delicious
Edible part
  • Flowers
  • Leaves
  • Roots
  • Young shoots
Preparation
  • Cooked
  • Raw
Blooming period
April to October
Foraging period
January to May
Seed collection period
September to November
Potential medicinal uses
  • Amphoteric
  • Carminative
  • Diuretic

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Pale pink
  • Pink
Leaf type
  • Compound
Life form
  • Hemicryptophyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Ononis L.
Family
Fabaceae
Wikidata item
Q160102
GBIF Item
Ononis spinosa L. (2977149)

References

  1. 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.
  2. Ononis spinosa L. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-06-08.
  3. Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-06-08. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Ononis+spinosa>
  4. Mashjar Juthour.(2017). Palestinian Wildflower Pocket Guide(English and Arabic)
  5. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
  6. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.

Citation

Ononis spinosa L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/813 accessed via barari.org on 6/22/2026.

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