Prasium majus L.

Spice Flowers In the field

Family: LABIATAE (LAMIACEAE)

Genus: Prasium

Catalan common name: Arangí bord.

Spanish common name: Prasio.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Girona.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): South Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Phanerophyte.

Habitats: Wild olive trees and other sclerophyllous shrublands. Juniperus phoenicea subsp. turbinata forest. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Climbing up walls, shrups and rocks.

Characteristics: A woody plant which lives hanging from trees or bushes, or stuck in dry walls and rocks; it is therefore a creeper. It has opposite leaves with a dentate margin, the obverse is shiny. The flowers are white, around two centimetres long, and grow in more or less terminal racemes. When it is not in flower it can be mistaken for Clematis cirrhosa, which lives in the same habitats. The leaves of Clematis are normally deeply lobulate, then there is no possibilty of confusion, either way they are never shiny like in Prasium majus. It flowers in spring.