Verbascum boerhavii L.

Spice Basal leaves Leaves detail Flower Inflorescence

Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE

Genus: Verbascum

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

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

Characteristics: A robust plant covered with languid hairs. Visible is a basal leaf rosette, and from this structure emerges a central stem, also robust, covered with leaves and finished in an elongated stem with large yellow flowers. Inside of the inflorescence the flowers are solitary on the bract axils (for V. sinuatum i V. thapsus the flowers are united in groups). The calyx is linear and simple (not oval and dentate as V. creticum).

Observations: In this genus interspecific hybrids are very common.