Ononis reclinata L. subsp. reclinata

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Ononis

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera. Dragonera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Wild olive trees and other sclerophyllous shrublands. Juniperus phoenicea subsp. turbinata forest. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Therophytic calicole fields. Pine woodlands, garriques, and therophytics communities.

Characteristics: A small annual herb with trifoliate leaves and with dentate leaflets only at the top. We will find it in dry meadows where it is an almost infallible inhabitant. We will distinguish it by its flowers with the typical shape of the leguminosae, but with a pink or lilac top petal in and the rest whitish coloured; the calyx is almost as long as the corolla. Flowers since the end of winter and during all the spring.