Thymelaea passerina
Thymelaea passerina
Çekem
Erect annual. Stem 15-60 cm, simple or strictly branched, green, glabrous or very sparsely pilose at tips. Leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate, 5-20 x 1-2.5 mm, acute, glabrous, very rarely with a few hairs on abaxial surface. Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, 1-5. Subtending bracts 2, lanceolate, 2-3 mm, sparsely ciliate at base. Perianth 2.5-3 mm, adpressed-pubescent, greenish-yellow; lobes ovate, 0.5-1 mm, obtuse. Ovary hirsute at apex; style terminal. Seed 2-3 mm. Fl. 4-8. Fallow fields and stony pastures, railway embankments, eroded slopes, dry river beds, salt-flats, 10-2000 m.
C. & S. Europe, S.W. Asia, C. Russia eastwards to C. Asia.
