Reichardia tingitana

Reichardia tingitana, the false sowthistle, is a plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae, spread mainly across the Mediterranean and western Asia. It is an annual with alternate leaves that are entire with serrated margins, and yellow, hermaphroditic flowers that open from March to May. The page describes it as a glycophyte accustomed to growing in saline soils, most commonly in arid deserts and shrub-steppes, and well in sandy depressions in the Middle East. It is naturalised in France and is a minor weed in Australia, where it grows in urban sites, coastal dunes and alluvial plains. It has been recorded in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and eastern Saudi Arabia, where it is called huzan, mureer and murar. Folk medicine in the Middle East uses the leaves for constipation, colic and inflamed eyes.