Flora

Glycyrrhiza glabra L., it is a perennial plant from 50 cm to 1 meter, herbaceous, glabrescent, erect, robust, with a woody stem, long stoloniferous; leaves imparipinnate, with 4-8 pairs of elliptical or oblong leaflets, entire, viscous below, stipules very small. Inconspicuous, bluish or purplish flowers, quite small, numerous, in cylindrical spiky clusters, on axillary peduncles equal to half the leaf. Calyx pubescent-glandular, tubular, humped at the base, with 2 lips, with 5 slightly uneven teeth, lanceolate, longer than the tube, standard erect, oblong, longer than the wings extending beyond the acute keel, stamens, oblique. Pods oblong, bumpy, very compressed, finely veined, not stipitated, with 2-4 lenticular seeds.

Flowering in: Mar-Jun.

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  Reported from Derna by Durand & Barratte and Pampanini

Doubtful in Libya ??? Medicinal plant.  The dried roots (liquorice of commerce) is used in tobacco industries, medicine etc.; a refreshing drink named Ergsus or Sus is prepared from the roots and sold in the Orient. Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental. I have not found a recent record of this species in Libya so far.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:496941-1

Link of images: https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/17684.html,      http://plants.bauercreative.sk/glycyrrhiza-glabra.php,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:496941-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/496941-1,    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212813,   https://www.gbif.org/species/2965732,    https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/63187/glycyrrhiza-glabra-l,    https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2505.html,   https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/17684.html,  https://agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Glycyrrhiza_glabra/index.html,   http://plants.bauercreative.sk/glycyrrhiza-glabra.php,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice