1. INTRODUCTION
Frankenia L. is a global halophyte genus that come about in Mediterranean, semi-arid, and arid regions on special soil types which usually known as Sea Heath or MILLAIH belongs to the Frankeniaceae family (Whalen, 1987). It’s the largest genus and considered only genus of the family that is local in the Western Hemisphere. In Iraq, Frankenia species have been systematically studying such as morphological, anatomical, palynological, ecological and geographical distribution have been done by (Al-Tameme, 2016), she was confirmed that presences two species of Frankenia namely Frankenia pulverulenta L. and Frankenia aucheri, also the first species was more commonly than the other (Figure.1).
Lewis (2003), pointed that none of Frankenia species have of economic or of exceptional ecological importance, but only research introduced by Fegler (1985), pointed to have beautiful flowers thus ornamental plant and some species contain gummy resin, kaempferol, quercetin and tannin (about 6%) utilized for sticking blade cutting edges and to seal stoneware.
Despite the spread of this species in many areas, particularly Iraq s neighboring regions such as Turkey (Webb, 1966), Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine (Townsend, 1980), Egypt (Salama, 1999), Syria (Al-Oudat, 2011), Qatar (Abulfahij, 2002), Kuwait (Malallah, 2003) and Irano-Turanian and Mediterranean (Youcef, 2012) but no reports about phytochemicaly are available on this genus, therefore, the aim of this work was investigated bioactive components and determined by GC-MS and FT-IR techniques .