Hedypnois rhagadioloides (L.) F.W. Schmidt

Spice Detail Fruit detail Flower Fruit

Family: COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)

Genus: Hedypnois

Sinònims: Hedypnois cretica (L.) Dum.-Cours.

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

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

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytics communities.

Characteristics: This is one more of the many Compositae with yellow capitula; in this case we can distinguish it because the leaf-stalk is thick just beneath the capitulum. The fruits have a ring of sharp, rigid scales. It is a rather small, annual cycle, plant with poorly dentate leaves. It is quite frequent both in small terophitic meadows and along path-sides and moors too.