Dorycnium pentaphyllum Scop. subsp. pentaphyllum

Spice Flower In the field Inflorescence

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Dorycnium

Catalan common name: Botja d´escombres. Sacorrell. Socarrell.

Spanish common name: Bocha. Mijediega. Socarrillo.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Chameophyte. Nanophanerophyte.

Habitats: Beaches and dunes, sandy soils. Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Garriques and pine woods.

Characteristics: A rounded bush, but with long, narrow branches; its name comes from the arrangement of the leaflets of the leaves which look like five leaves together. The leaflets have an inverted triangular shape and are greyish in colour. The flowers are white, very small and grouped at the tip of a peduncle which is longer than the leaves.