JanuaryFebruaryMarsApril
Small-fruited Asphodel
Asphodelus microcarpus / Asphodelus ramosus
- Northern Hills and Plains
- Zaghouan
- Siliana
- Cap Bon
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
A robust spring wild plant that invades overgrazed land and arid hills.
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Honey flowers
Discover the plants that feed bees and shape the diversity of honeys. Each profile presents their characteristics, flowering period, and beekeeping value.
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Spiny Broom
Calicotome villosa / Calicotome spinosa
- North of Tunisia
- Collines du Sahel
- Cap Bon
- Kef
- Siliana
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Thorny wild shrub covering the Mediterranean hills, with bright yellow flowers.
SeptemberOctoberNovember
Sticky fleabane
Dittrichia viscosa / Inula viscosa
- North of Tunisia
- Coastal plains
- Sahel
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Invasive pioneer plant of wastelands, roadsides, and wetlands, essential for beekeeping overwintering.
JuneJuly
Sunflower
Helianthus annuus
- Béja
- Jendouba
- Bizerte
Large summer industrial crop in the fertile plains of northern Tunisia.
Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
- Tunisian Vegetable Growing Zones
A major market garden crop in Tunisia, grown in open fields and greenhouses. Its anthers primarily release their pollen through vibration.
MarsAprilOctoberNovemberDecember
Tree heath
Erica arborea / Erica multiflora
- Mogods (Sejnane)
- Kroumirie (Tabarka, Ain Draham)
- Bizerte
- Heather Honey
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Major component of the maquis in the humid and subhumid northern Tunisia.
AprilMaiJune
Viper's Bugloss
Echium vulgare / Echium pycnanthum
- North of Tunisia
- Medjerda Valley
- Béja
- Bizerte
- Zaghouan
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
A biennial wild plant producing superb blue to purple flowers very rich in nectar.
MaiJune
White Horehound
Marrubium vulgare
- Hautes steppes du Centre (Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine)
- Le Kef
- Siliana
- Marjoram Honey
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Hardy and medicinal plant growing in degraded pastures, steppes, and forest edges.
MaiJuneJulyAugust
Wild Caper
Capparis spinosa
- Kairouan
- Zaghouan
- Sidi Bouzid
- Siliana
- Southern Tunisia
- Caper Honey
Thorny, creeping shrub, very resistant to drought, common in the center and south.
MaiJuneJuly
Wild Jujube Tree
Ziziphus lotus
- Sidi Bouzid
- Gafsa
- Tataouine
- Médenine
- Kairouan
- Gabès
- Jujube Honey
Thorny wild shrub typical of the arid and semi-arid climates of central and southern Tunisia.
AprilMaiJune
Wild Lavender / Stoechas Lavender
Lavandula stoechas
- Mogods (Sejnane)
- Kroumirie (Tabarka, Ain Draham)
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Wild plant of the acidic maquis of Northwestern Tunisia, with purple floral spikes topped with tufts.
JulyAugustSeptember
Wild Mint / Pennyroyal Mint
Mentha pulegium
- North-West (Jendouba, Béja, Tabarka, Sejnane)
- Wild Mint Honey
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Aromatic herbaceous plant that loves the humidity of wadi beds and marshy areas of the North.