Ononis natrix, the yellow restharrow[1] or shrubby rest-harrow, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae.

Coast, lower and middle mountains, Beqaa, South, Antilebanon.

Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Circum-Mediterranean.

Onônis or anônis is the Greek name of a Mediterranean species of the genus.

Nalrix is the name of a water snake, given to a plant whose pollen tube discharges ciliated antherozoids which swim ( just like a water snake) before entering the embryo sac.