Morocco (Cover large area in the valley of the river Meuleuya with Stipa tenacissima).
Libya (Barka and Jabal Al-Akhdar).
Tunisia (South east part).
Egypt (North desert and Sinai).
Jordan (Jordan Valley and dead Sea area)
Saudi Arabia (Samman hill)
Between Iraq and Kuwait (Boteen Valley with Zilla spinosa)
W. Irano-Turanian, Central Asia(Takyra).
Syria (covered big area of North and West Syrian Steppe with Poa),
High land of Nabek(1350 m), extending from South East Aleppo to Tel-al-Sheh
in Wadi Al-Azeeb, Beshre Mountain, Rasafeh, South Hasakeh
Chamaephyte:
20-40 cm, aromatic, tomentose, later glabrescent, grey, many-stemmed,
easily uprooted owing to its superficially ramified roots.
Stems: rigid, erect, each ending in a spreadingly branched panicle.
Leaves:
of sterile shoots petiolate, ovate to orbicular in outline,
2-pinnatisect into divergent oblong segments; leaves of flowering stems
much smaller,
few-lobed; those of brachyblasts clustered; leaves of flowering branches
minute.
Heads: sessile, oblong, tapering at base, 3-4 mm., 2-4 flowered.
Involucral
bracts:
imbricate, appressed; outer bracts minute, herbaceous, fleshy,
orbicular; inner bracts much longer, oblong, obtuse, membranous, glossy.