Cynoglossum creticum Mill.

Spice Fruit In the field In the field 2

Family: BORAGINACEAE

Genus: Cynoglossum

Catalan common name: Aferragós. Besneula. Llapassera. Llengua d'ovella. Llengua de ca. Maneula.

Spanish common name: Cinogloso azul. Oreja de liebre. Viniebla.

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

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Path and road sides, disturbed zones.

Characteristics: A biannual herb with a rosette of basal flowers; these leaves are hairy, they have a lanceolate limb with a blunt tip and a relatively long stalk. The stem leaves have no petiole. The inflorescence is formed in the second year; it is erect and greatly branched, each branch has the scorpion shape characteristic of the Boraginaceae family. The flowers are bluish, with darker veins. The fruits are very characteristic; each flower forms four pieces displayed in a cross, each covered in stings and tubercles. It lives in fields and along path-sides; it flowers at the end of spring.