Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Ononis minutissima L.
Family : LEGUMINOSAE
Genus : Ononis
Province distribution : Alicante. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castellón. Gerona. Lérida. Tarragona. Valencia.
Distribution in the islands : Cabrera. Dragonera. Formentera. Ibiza. Mallorca. Minorca.
General distribution : West Mediterranean
Flowering time : April. May. June.
Life-forms : Chameophyte.
Habitat : Pine woods and rock creviceses.
IUCN Category : Poco preocupante
Characteristics : A small shrub with very thin, woody branches. It has trifoliate leaves, with narrow, dentate leaflets. The flowers are yellow, ad can be found in the axils of a whitish bract. All the flowers come out in groups at the top of the branches. It lives in garrigues (Mediterranean woodland), and also in the cracks in the rocks. It flowers in winter to end of spring.
