Wahlenbergia lobelioides (L.f.) Link subsp. nutabunda (Guss.) Murb.

Species

Family: CAMPANULACEAE

Genus: Wahlenbergia

Province distribution: Castelló. València.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Southern Mediterranean

Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.

IUCN Category: VUVulnerable

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Pinus pinaster pine wood. Therophytic silicolous fields. Dry grasslands on siliceous sands.

Characteristics: Small, delicate annual plant. Erect stems up to 20 cm, branched at the base. Leaves mainly in the lower part of the stem, sessile, elliptic, with toothed margins. Flowers solitary, borne on long filiform peduncles. Campanulate corolla, whitish or bluish, slightly larger than the calyx, with five nearly equal lobes. Fruit is an ovoid capsule that opens into three valves.