Oenanthe lachenalii C.C.Gmel.

Spice Fruit

Family: UMBELLIFERAE (APIACEAE)

Genus: Oenanthe

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: VUVulnerable

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Salt marshes near the sea.

Characteristics: An herbaceous plant that can reach up to a metre in height and lives in flooded saline soils along with the rushes and reeds. An Umbelliferae with white flowers, this makes it easy to identify in the middle of an herb field. The leaves are divided into very narrow segments. Can be differentiated from Oenanthe globulosa, which is more common, and its umbel radii do not thicken with maturation, are more in number, (more than 7) and the entire plant is taller. Flowers during the summer.