Forsskaolea tenacissima
Forsskaolea tenacissima is a member of the non-stinging nettles genus "Forsskaolea" and is in the same family as the stinging kind, Urticaceae. Described as "looking like a tough character that does not want or need a caress", "F. tenacissima" makes its home where not many plant species survive, in stony soils, road edges, in the gravel wadi and "in the rock crevices and water-receiving depressions" above the stone pavements of the Hamadas. "Forsskaolea tenacissima" was named in mourning of a student of Carl Linnaeus, a Swede named Peter Forsskål, who died while gathering botanical and zoological  specimens from the Arabia Felix. Linnaeus named this plant "Forsskaolea tenacissima" because the plant was as stubborn and persistent as the student had been. Description. The almost upright fleshy, stiff-haired, woody annual "F. tenacissima" appears after the rains in rocky and difficult to grow in places like the Sahel of Mauritania, and (the Horn of Africa), and now recorded in Niger. It is a chamaephyte that is much relished by livestock. "F. tenacissima" has been observed living low in wadis with these plant species: It has also been found growing in rock crevices and water-receiving depressions above the  stone pavements of the Hamadas along with: Distribution. Common in arid and semi-arid waste lands in sandy clay gravelly soils from sea level to like Mediterranean woodlands and shrublands, semi-steppe shrublands, shrub-steppes, deserts and extreme deserts. Uses. The inner bark is used by natives in Sahara for manufacturing rope.