Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Small shrub. Flowering. Apr–May. Status: Introduced. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occurs in the NW of Al Khor town (Mohammed Al Safran) and seen by MAS at two locations in W Qatar. Batanouny recorded it at Abu Sara Abdul Majidrah and Umm Bab. Usually in saline […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Introduced. Rare. Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Recorded from Al Khor by El Amin.

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Small shrub. Flowering. Mar–Jul. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Being a favoured grazing species is rarely seen in quantity. Frequent in the western part of Ras Laffan Industrial City (John Norton 2004) where protected from grazing; very scattered in western Qatar in 2007. Batanouny […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Feb–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to locally frequent in shallow, often somewhat compact, sand; particularly in sandy or gravelly depressions. Uses: Phillips quotes Dickson (1955) reporting that the seeds of the plant were used by the Bedu of Kuwait […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional in rocky terrain in shallow deposits of sand or silt, but also recorded in cultivated areas. Uses: The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Mandaville reports from an earlier source that it was sometimes […]

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Apr–May. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded by El Amin from C and W Qatar, including Dukhan. Uses: Good fodder (El Amin).

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Annual grass. Flowering. Feb–May. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded by Batanouny from a stony area at Umm Slal Mohammed.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional on gravel plains, stony or rocky areas, growing in thin sandy deposits. Uses: Poisonous and animals avoid it (El Amin).

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Annual grass. Flowering. Apr–May. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Recorded by Batanouny from a stony area with accumulated fine soil at Umm Slal Mohammed. Notes: Batanouny ascribed his plant to var. psilostachys Hal?csy (not formally recognised by Cope).

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual or short-lived perennial. Flowering. Dec–Mar. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded from Al Khor by Batanouny.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual or biennial herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Frequent on gravel and stone plains, compacted sand sheets and similar habitats. Uses: El Amin mentions that some local people boil it to cure fevers.

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrub. Flowering. Mar. Status: Native. Rare. First published record: Miller & Cope (1996). Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: A plant of rocky places over Arabia generally.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Perennial herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. habitat & distribution: Occasional, on compact stony and gravelly soils; mainly in C Qatar; rare in the west. El Amin recorded along the road from Al Sheehaniyah (where it still common) to Dukhan; it also occurs along the road to […]

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrub or tree. Flowering. Not known. Status: Introduced. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: One of the more widely planted fig species. It may occasionally escape into the wild. Uses: Grown for fruit and as an ornamental plant.

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Not known. Status: Native. Rare. First published record: Cope (2007). Also recorded: UAE. Habitat & distribution: A plant of rocky areas. The map in Cope shows a locality marked on the west coast.

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to locally frequent in shallow sand in wadis and runnels; often within rocky areas. Uses: Eaten by all animals (El Amin). Notes: Recorded as C. aucheri (Boiss.) Stapf by Batanouny, but later apparently redetermined as C. plumulosus […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual (occasionally perennial) herb. Flowering. Feb–Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Recorded on a silt pan NE of Zikreet in 2007 (John Norton).

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Apr–Jun. Status: Native. Local. Not in other Gulf areas. H.abitat & distribution: Occasional to frequent in wadis and runnels, often within rocky areas.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Sandy and gravelly soils in C Qatar.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar. Status: Native. Very common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Abudant, often locally dominant. Always on hard surfaces, including gravel plains, stony and and rocky areas, where there is a thin covering of silt or sand. Uses: El Amin remarks that it is not […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Very common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional or frequent in stony habitats and compacted, often saline soils. Uses: In Bahrain, the leaves are used as an antibiotic and laxative; infusion of leaves or the seeds is applied to the eyes in […]

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to locally abundant in silty or sandy depressions and runnels; mainly N and C Qatar. Large tussocks of this lemon-scented species dominate silt pans in parts of Ras Laffan Industrial City where there is no […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Perennial herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Frequent to abundant, or locally dominant in shallow sandy runnels and depressions on gravel plains; mostly S Qatar. Uses: ‘Whole plant is good fodder; fruit eaten by animals’ (El Amin); Mandaville also states that the very […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–May. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Coarse gravels, sandy depressions and runnels; C Qatar.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Feb–Mar. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to frequent on rocky ground and shallow, compacted sand; especially SW Qatar. Uses: Rizk & El-Ghazaly report that in Bahrain the leaves are used as purgative and hypoglycaemic.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded by El Amin from sandy soils and gravelly depressions, but he does not mention a location.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Feb–Apr. Status: Native. Rare. First published record: Abdel Bari (1997). Also recorded: UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded near Abu Sara Abdul Majidrah on a ‘mud plain’.

Kingdom : Flora, Grass, Herb

Growth form: Annual grass. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia. habitat & distribution: Batanouny recorded this taxon from Umm Slal Mohammed growing in small depressions on calcareous ridges. It may also occur as a weed species in cultivated areas, as it does elsewhere in the Gulf. Uses: Mandaville remarks that […]

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Annual grass. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Previously recorded from stony and rocky ground in N Qatar.

Kingdom : Flora, Grass

Growth form: Perennial grass. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Frequent in gravel plains, gravelly depressions and other areas with compact soil. Notes: No confirmed recent records. It is possible that this species has been recorded in error in the past for S. sokotrana. Uses: Used for […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native.Rare. First published record: Abulfatih et al. (2001) (included in a list of species recorded). Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE. Habitat & distribution: A plant of rocky areas.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Perennial herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Local. Not in other Gulf areas. Habitat & distribution: Occasional in rocky areas. El Amin recorded from Jebel Dukhan and Wadi Al Banat.

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrub. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional or frequent in sandy or gravelly depressions, growing amongst Acacia, Ziziphus and Lycium. It can be seen by the roadside of the Al Shamal highway from north of Doha to Al Khor and from Al […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to frequent in sandy depressions and runnels; mainly C Qatar.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Shrublet. Flowering. Mar. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Mainly on harder, calcareous substrates in W Qatar. Frequent in the Dukhan area (John Norton).

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrublet or small shrub. Flowering. Mar–May. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional in shallow silty or sandy soils, in rocky areas, also in depressions with coarse soils. Uses: The plant is used in the treatment of diarrhoea, gonorhoea, haemorhoids and eye diseases (Rizk & […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Small shrub. Flowering. Mar. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Recorded by Batanouny from C and N Qatar in calcareous stony soils and saline areas. Uses: Favourite grazing for camels (Mandaville). Salt grazing (El Amin). Often used as firewood (Mandaville).

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: Noted in two places in western Qatar, 2007 (John Norton), including one site on the outskirts of Dukhan township and another south of Umm Bab; both on compact, calcareous soils. Also Al Khor island (Renee Richer). Batanouny […]

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrublet or small shrub. Flowering. Mar–May. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional, particularly on more compacted soils on gravelly and rocky areas, and also in disturbed areas near to habitation. Uses: Grazed by sheep and goats (El Amin), but Mandaville remarks that some bedouin consider […]

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Shrub. Flowering. Mar. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional in stony and rocky areas and compact silty soils in depressions and by roads; mainly in NE Qatar. Uses: Buds are cooked and pickled and used as flavouring in cooking (El Amin). The leaves of the […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Mar–Apr. Status: Native. Rare. Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Recorded from C and S Qatar, including Umm Bab.

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Feb–Mar. Status: Native. Local. First record: SW Qatar, March 2007 (John Norton & S. Aspinall). Miller & Cope mention a record for which there is no supporting specimen. Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional, mainly on compact, gravelly soils in SW Qatar (found in 2007 at […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. All year. Status: Introduced. Local. First published record: Abdel Bari (1997). Also recorded: E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: This species is a recent colonist in the Gulf; it is only included in the most recent literature for the region (Jongbloed et al.). In Qatar it is likely to […]

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Small shrub. Flowering. Feb–Mar. Status: Native. Common. Also recorded: Bahrain, E Saudi Arabia, UAE. Habitat & distribution: Occasional to frequent on rocky substrates with shallow sand, or in silty and sandy depressions. Uses: Several authors note that the Flowering heads were formerly used by the bedouin for stuffing saddles, pillows and cushions. Used […]

Kingdom : Flora, Herb

Growth form: Annual herb. Flowering. Feb–Mar. Status: Native. Rare. First record: SW Qatar, March 2007 (John Norton). Also recorded: Kuwait, E Saudi Arabia. Habitat & distribution: A single plant in fruit growing in thin soil on a rocky summit.

Kingdom : Flora, Shrub

Growth form: Annual or short-lived perennial. Flowering. Apr. Status: Native. Local. Also recorded: UAE. Habitat & distribution: Rocky places; previously recorded N of Doha by Batanouny and recently in a few sites in NE Qatar (Mohammed Al Safran).