Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert

Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE

Genus: Vaccaria

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

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

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

Characteristics: An upright herbaceous plant that live in dry-farmed fields. Leaves are opposite and are used to each other at the base. The flowers are a sur e key to identification. Located at the uper half of the plant, with rose coloured petals and an inflated calyx in five acute angles, almot winged, which run along the stem from top to bottom. Flowers at the beginning of summer.