Common Name (No. Observed)
Scientific Name

Common Reed

Fountain Grass

Flatsedge

Feather Finger Grass

Giant Milkweed/Sodom’s Apple

Desert Squash

Heliotropes

Dandelion family

Dandelion family

Rimth

Tribulus

Desert Plantain

Small annual

Perennial shrub (Mustard family)

Athel Tamarisk

Phragmites australis

Pennisetum setaceum

Cyperus conglomeratus

Chloris virgata

Calotropis procera

Citrullus colocynthis

Heliotropium sp.

Launaea mucronata

Launaea capitata

Haloxylon salicornicum

Tribulus sp.

Plantago ovata

Eremobium aegyptiacum

Farsetia linearis*

Tamarix aphylla

Total - 15 species

*Farsetia linearis is a very rare plant in the UAE (Jongbloed 2003)