Leopoldia comosa (L.) Parl.

Spice Fruits In the field

Family: LILIACEAE

Genus: Leopoldia

Sinònims: Muscari comosum (L.) Miller

Catalan common name: All de bruixa. All de culobra. Allassa blava. Barralet. Calabruixa. Cap de moro. Coll de colom. Pipiu blau.

Spanish common name: Guitarrillo. Jacinto penachudo. Nazarenos.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

Uses and properties: Edible or foodstuffs.

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Geophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Wild olive trees and other sclerophyllous shrublands. Juniperus phoenicea subsp. turbinata forest. Cultivated fields and garriques.

Characteristics: A herb with an underground bulb, where the leaves, which are very long and rigid, grow from, they often stay lying on the ground. The inflorescence is made up of a raceme of fertile greenish flowers with the floral pieces completely united in a more or less horizontal position; at the top of the inflorescence there is a group of bright blue-lilac upward-facing sterile flowers which claim your attention and can seem to be the genuine flowers. It lives in dry farmlands and in clearings in garrigues (Mediterranean woodland). It flowers in spring.