Dipcadi serotinum (L.) Medic.

Spice Fruit In the field Seeds

Family: LILIACEAE

Genus: Dipcadi

Catalan common name: Marcet.

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

Distribution in the islands: Ibiza. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Geophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Rocky coastlines. Rock crevices and cliff faces. Dry soils and rock outcrops.

Characteristics: A small bulbous plant with few leaves, smaller that the stem, flat on the face and curved on the reverse. Flowers that emerge in the spring don't stand out due their brown colour, but make them alternately in the form of a unilateral raceme. The fruit is a trilobed globose capsule with black coloured seeds.