Israel wildflowers: Prolific Scabious

Scabiosa prolifera, Lomelosia prolifera, Prolific Scabious, Carmel Daisy,

Hebrew: תגית מצויה, Arabic: جربية مخلفة – كعب الغزال


Scientific name:		Scabiosa prolifera L.
Synonym name:		Lomelosia prolifera (L.) Greuter et Burdet
Common name:		Prolific Scabious, Carmel Daisy
Hebrew name:		תגית מצויה
Arabic name:		جربية مخلفة – كعب الغزال
Family:		Dipsacaceae, שלמוניים


Life form:		Therophyte, annual
Leaves:		Opposite, entire, dentate or serrate
Flowers:		White, yellow
Flowering Period:		March, April, May
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		The Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes
Chorotype:		Mediterranean
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: Givat-Hamoreh, Little Hermon – Nebi Dahi, גבעת המורה ,נבי דחי}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Scabiosa, Latin scabies, “the itch,” which the rough (scurfy) leaves might have been used to cure.

prolifera, producing side shoots in order to increase; proliferous.
Lomelosia (derivation unknown to me).
The Hebrew name: נזרית, nezirit / תגית, tagit, scabiosa.

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 Greuter is used to indicate Werner Rodolfo Greuter (born 1938), a botanist, born in Genova (Italy), as Swiss national.
The standard author abbreviation Burdet is used to indicate Hervé Maurice Burdet (born 1939), a Swiss botanist.

_{Location: Bene Zion Nature Reserve}