Description: Dwarf shrub up to 30 cm tall, covered with white-greenish hairs. The leaves are up to 2.5 cm, oval in shape. The flowers are tiny sessile on short stalks. The flowers are collected at the tops of the branches in roundish flower heads. The fruit is a schizocarp that breaks down into 4 fruits.

Flowering time: May-July

Habitat: open forests and scrubland, underbush and rocky pastures

Interesting fact: in folk medicine it was used to reduce blood pressure, then in disorders of the urinary and genital systems. Today, bedouins consume it as a tea and spice.