Pulicaria odora (L.) Reichenb.
Family: COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)
Genus: Pulicaria
Catalan common name: Afrontacavadors. Afrontallauradors. Botja. Herba pucera. Plantatge de ca. Saragatona. Sargantona.
Spanish common name: Hierba pulguera.
Province distribution: Balearic Islands.
Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.
IUCN Category: Least concern
Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.
Habitats: Oakforest. Wild olive trees and other sclerophyllous shrublands. Juniperus phoenicea subsp. turbinata forest. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue.
Characteristics: A herb at the edges of garrigues (Mediterranean woodland) and woodlands. Firstly it lives as of a rosette of leaves along the ground, then it forms an erect stem which holds the capitula at the top. The rosette leaves are relatively large, are lanceolate in shape, and are cottony on the underside and green on the obverse. The stem leaves have small ears where they come into contact with the stem. The capitula are large, two or three centimetres in diameter, they have peripheral ligulate flowers with long, narrow, yellow ligules. It flowers at the end of spring.