Peganum harmala
Peganum harmala
Üzerlik
Erect perennial herbs with glabrous, stout stems arising from a woody stock, 30-70 cm. Leaves alternate, with minute deciduous stipules, irregularly divided into linear, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic segments , 3-5 cm. Flowers solitary, usually leaf-opposed. Sepals linear, green, resembling the leaf segments and sometimes irregularly divided and with a minute 'epicalyx' between the sepals. Petals white, elliptic, usually slightly exceeding the sepals, 10-13 mm. Capsules slightly stalked, broadly obovoid or globular, loculicidal, c. 8 x 8 mm. FI. 5-7. Waste places, steppe , s.I.-1500 m.
S. Europe, N. Africa, S.W. Asia, eastwards to Tibet.
