Helictochloa bromoides (Gouan) Romero Zarco

Family: GRAMINEAE (POACEAE)

Genus: Helictochloa

Sinònims: Avenula bromoides (Gouan) H. Scholz

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

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): West Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Rock crevices and cliff faces. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Garriques and forests. Rock creviceses.

Characteristics: A Gramene found in garrigues (Mediterranean woodland) and pine woods; it is perennial and forms small carpets. It is characteristic for its small spikes which are peduncled as in all the Avena and Avenula, and they have awns which, when they ripen, remain bent over more or less double. The whole plant is yellowish-green. It flowers at the end of spring.