Slender Safflower / قوص / قُرطُم نحيل /

حنا الغزال / عصفر / قرطم / قوس /

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

Edibility and usage

Edibility

Edible

Edible part

Young stems

Preparation

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

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.
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.
Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
Hamami, R.(2021).From Crown Anemone to Buchy Bean Caper.Ramallah:A.M. Qattan Foundation.(English and Arabic)
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.

Citation

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/824 accessed via barari.org on 6/23/2026.