Verbascum sinuatum L.

Spice Basal leaves Flower

Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE

Genus: Verbascum

Catalan common name: Blenera sinuada. Múria. Trepó. Tripó bord.

Spanish common name: Acigutre. Cenicero. Gordolobo. Tientayernos.

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

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones.

Characteristics: A robust plant widely covered by hairs. Visible is a basal leaf rosette, and from this structure emerges a central stem, also robust, covered with leaves and finished in an elongated panicle, ample with a sparse distribution of large yellow flowers. At least the lower part of the inflorescence the flowers are united in groups on the bract axils (for V. Creticum and V. boerhavii flowers are solitary). The basal leaves are normally lobate and the reverse is glaborous (not lobate with a glaborous face as V. thapsus).

Observations: In this genus interspecific hybrids are very common.