Thlaspi perfoliatum L.

Spice Fruit detail

Family: CRUCIFERAE (BRASSICACEAE)

Genus: Thlaspi

Catalan common name: Traspic perfoliat.

Spanish common name: Mostacilla brava. Telaspio menor.

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytics communities.

Characteristics: A small annual plant that lives in terraphytic fields, especially in the mountains. Basal leaves are arranged in a rosette, the stem leaves are sessile and embrace the stem with two basal auricles. Flowers are very small, white but the fruit is very characteristic because it is upright and each of the two sides has leafy wings that stick out from the fruit. Flowers during the winter and spring.