Hebrew: לוניאה שרועה, Arabic: حواء غنم – صفارة
| Scientific name: | Launaea nudicaulis (L.) Hooker fil. | |
| Common name: | Bold-Leaf Launaeae | |
| Hebrew name: | לוניאה שרועה | |
| Arabic name: | حواء غنم – صفارة | |
| Family: | Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים |
Location: Mashabei Sade |
| Life form: | Hemicryptophyte | |
| Stems: | up to 40-50 cm high; several procumbent to ascending-erect, already at the basal nodes ± divaricately branched, occasionally straggling flowering stems, leafless or with a few (± reduced) leaves at the lower branching. | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, rosette, dissected, pinnate, dentate or serrate | |
| Inflorescence: | Synflorescence or compound inflorescence of a flowering stem ending in a single capitulum and with a variable number of flowering branches; scapose inflorescence | |
| Flowers: | Bright yellow ligule of 8-11 x 2.2-2.6 mm and a tube 6-9 mm long; anthertube without appendages 2.8-4.0 mm long, basal appendages 0.4-0.7 mm and apical appendages 0.3-0.6 mm long; style branches 2.0-3.2 mm long usually with yellow sweeping hairs | |
| Fruits / pods: | Achenes | |
| Flowering Period: | April, May | |
| Habitat: | Desert, Thermophilous plants | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts | |
| Chorotype: | Saharo-Arabian | |
| Summer shedding: | Perennating |
Location: Mashabei Sade Derivation of the botanical name: Launaea, named after French lawyer Jean Claude Mien Mordant de Launay (c.1750-1816). nudicaulis, nudus, "naked, bare, unclothed", caulis, caul adj/ καυλοϛ, stem of a plant; Bare stem. The Hebrew name: לוניאה, Launaea, a transliteration from the scientific name.
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