Veronica cymbalaria Bodard subsp. cymbalaria

Spice Detail In the field

Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE

Genus: Veronica

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Cultivated fields, path and road sides.

Characteristics: Herbaceous plant that lives clinging to stone walls and rocks. Has rounded leaves with a regularly lobed margin covered with hairs, although the plant's colour is fresh green. Above all, can be recognized it its white, four-petaled flowers. This the only Veronica to be found in the field with white flowers, and this character distinguishes it immediately from Veronica hederifolia, which has blue flowers, like the majority of the groundcovers. The subsp. trichadena has only slightly marked leaf lobules, and its leaf hairs are very glandulous. Flowers during the greater part of winter and spring.