Hippocrepis multisiliquosa L.

Spice

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Hippocrepis

Sinònims: Hippocrepis multisiliquosa L. subsp. multisiliquosa

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Castelló. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Fields and roads.

Characteristics: A small, annual cycle plant, when bearing fruit it is easy to recognise as a Hippocrepis because of its articulated pods with the seeds occupying each of the strangulations and the leaves with numerous leaflets, one of which is terminal. This species has inflorescences with up to six pedunculate flowers; this feature differentiates it from Hippocrepis biflora which has flowers which are normally isolated and which have very short peduncles.