Dear Dr. Sekkoum,
Maybe it is someone species of Oenothera genus?
No, sorry, not an Oenothera, but Alkanna maybe orientalis. It definitely has to have red roots.
Dear Dr Sekkoum, to me it seems more like Arnebia hispidessima. mainly grow as winter weed on arid regions, root yield red dye. kindly verify.
Definitely not the latter! S. Wenkart had it quite right in the first place: Alkanna orientalis - is common around the Mediterranean!
I think it is definitely Alkanna orientalis (Yellow Gromwell) (L.) Boiss.
See the linked paper.
At a first glance it looks like Alkanna orientalis (Boraginaceae).
It's surely an Arnebia (look at the longly exerted corolla tube). Probably Arnebia decumbens.
On my opinion, it is Alkanna orientalis. Where was photo made, in what region?
Some telling pictures there...
http://www.wildflowers.co.il/english/plant.asp?ID=1155
http://www.wildflowers.co.il/english/picture.asp?ID=4848
The original photo is not very good, but try to look on the leaves. In any case I would like to know, where was photo made? In Armenia we have Arnebia decumbens and Arnebia procumbens, so, I know them.
I have made a search in Google Images and found some Arnebia misidentified as Alkanna orientalis, so confusion appears to be widespread. Cases like this explain the need for typification. Here you will find the type of Alkanna orientalis. You can check that it is not the same plant:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/linnaean-typification/database/detailimage.dsml?ID=528900
Some North African pictures of Arnebia decumbens...
http://www.tela-botanica.org/isfan-nn-132325-illustrations
Hello, I agree with Naira, it's Alkanna orientalis (Boraginaceae). It happens to be a good specimen with flowers at each node 'in flower'. The specimens that I have seen had finished flowers lower down on each branch. The common English name for this is Alkannet, and it's a garden plant in Ireland.
Dear Khаlеd Sеkkoum
This plant is Arnebia decumbens (Vent.) Coss. & Kralik of family Boraginaceae.
Good luck!
Apparenlty the correct answer has not been given yet. The plant is definitely not an Alkanna. It has long been known under the mispplied name Macrotomia echioides, but its correct name is currently Huynhia pulchra, of which Arnebia pulchra is a synonym. It is also known under the common name "prophet flower".
Hello, I agree with Luis Carlón Ruiz and Arvind Singh, it's Arnebia decumbens... (Boraginaceae).
http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000958609.
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