Nonea echioides, Nonea ventricosa, Monkswort,
Hebrew: נוניאה כרסנית

Scientific name:		Nonea echioides (L.) Roemer et Schultes
Synonym name:		Nonea ventricosa (Sm.) Griseb.
Common name:		Monkswort
Hebrew name:		נוניאה כרסנית
Plant Family:		Boraginaceae, זיפניים

Life form:		Annual
Stems:		5-12cm high, ascending, little branched
Leaves:		Alternate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to subotuse entire, smooth
Inflorescence:		Flowers in bracteate, terminal cymes
Flowers:		White , pale yellowish corolla with cylindrical tube , infundibuliform limb 4-5mm in diameter, divided to c. 1/2 into lobes which are wider than long
Fruits / pods:		Nutlets
Flowering Period:		March, April
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes
Chorotype:		Med - Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name: Nonea, Nonnea, for Johann Philipp. Nonne (1729–72), botanical writer, and Professor of Medicine from Erfurt, Germany. echioides, resembling the genus Echium, Greek echis, a viper, the nutlets appearing to represent a viper's head. ventricosa, swollen on one side. The Hebrew name: נוניאה, nonea, transliteration from the scientific name. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation Roemer is used to indicate Johann Jakob Roemer (1763 – 1819), a Swiss physician, professor of botany and entomologist. The standard author abbreviation Schultes is used to indicate Josef August Schultes (1773 – 1831), an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. The standard author abbreviation Sm. is used to indicate James Edward Smith (1759 – 1828), an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. The standard author abbreviation Griseb. is used to indicate August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (1814 – 1879), a German botanist and phytogeographer.