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'''''Ononis natrix''''', the '''yellow restharrow'''<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }}</ref> or '''shrubby rest-harrow''', is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae.
==Description== Perennial, 50–100 cm, ligneous at base, completely viscous-glandular. Leaves with three oblong and denticulate leaflets. Flowers in terminal leafy racemes. Peduncles long, one-flowered, often aristate. Calyx lobes much longer than tube. Corolla 15 mm, twice as long as calyx, yellow. Standard with red brown striations.
==Flowering== April–July.
==Habitat== Sandy and stony places on limestone.
==Distribution== Coast, lower and middle mountains, Beqaa, South, Antilebanon.
==Geographic area== Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Circum-Mediterranean.
Onônis or anônis is the Greek name of a Mediterranean species of the genus. It is sometimes interpreted as formed of onos, donkey. and onesis. happiness. for certain rest-harrows were thought to please to donkeys. Nalrix is the name of a water snake, given to a plant whose pollen tube discharges ciliated antherozoids which swim ( just like a water snake) before entering the embryo sac.
The branches of this plant. known in Arabic by the name lissayq, are used in the preparation of raisin.<ref>Mustapha Nehmeh, Wild Flowers Of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research, 1978, pages 181 and 182.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
*Georges Tohme& Henriette Tohme, IIIustrated Flora of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research, Second Edition 2014.
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Category:Flora of Tunisia Category:Flora of Algeria Category:Flora of Lebanon and Syria natrix Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus