Launaea procumbens (Roxb.)  

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Tracheophyta
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae
Genus Launaea

Saudi Arabia: Widespread mostly in cultivated areas .  Distribution : Egypt , SW & C. Asia , China
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Habit :Perennial stoloniferous clump - forming herb
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Inflrescences:inner involved bracts 8 or more up to C.10 (-13)mm long
Ligules bright yellow, up to c.  7(-9) mm long above corolla-tube.  Achenes much variable, the outer black to corky white, 2.5-5 mm long, with 5 main th pressed and curved or some columnar-fusiform, the ribs variable from thin to thick-corky, abruth tapering at top below the pappus.  Pappus homomorphic of setaceous rays, up to c.  9 mm long, decidion along with the prominent, orange-yellow pappus disc.
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Leaves:Leaves radical except for one to three leaves on the lower nodes of scapes .  Lower leaves broadly to narrowly oblong to spathulate , sinuately pinnately shallowly deeply lobed , irregularly denticulate obtuse or acute .
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Flower :scapes 1-several from base branches capitula solitary to clustred at nodes on the branches usually more than 15 flowered