Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Crepis pusilla (Sommier) Merxm.
Family : COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)
Genus : Crepis
Province distribution : Balearic Islands.
Distribution in the islands : Mallorca.
General distribution : South Mediterranean
Flowering time : March. April.
Life-forms : Terophyte.
Habitat : Therophytics communities.
IUCN Category : Vulnerable
Characteristics : A tiny plant, it is made up of a rosette of long, whole leaves and, if it is in flower, with a capitulum without a stem in the centre of the rosette. It lives in the clearings of the driest garrigues (Mediterranean woodland) in Mallorca, associated to livestock paths. It flowers at the beginning of the spring.
