Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Ononis spinosa L. subsp. antiquorum (L.) Arcang.
Family : LEGUMINOSAE
Genus : Ononis
Catalan common name : Abriüll. Adragull. Adruls. Balomaga. Bornaga. Cadells. Dent de bou. Gatunha. Ugons.
Spanish common name : Abreojos. Balomaca. Gatillas. Gatuña. Goldarran. Grumuaca. Hierba toro. Pie de asno. Uña de gato.
Province distribution : Alicante. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castellón. Gerona. Lérida. Tarragona. Valencia.
Distribution in the islands : Ibiza. Mallorca. Minorca.
General distribution : Holoartica
Flowering time : April. May. June. July. August. September. October.
Life-forms : Chameophyte.
Habitat : Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones.
Uses and properties : Medicinal.
IUCN Category : Poco preocupante
Characteristics : Small spiny shrub that lives along the borders of roads and herblands. Flowers are rose coloured, with trifoliolate leaves with dentate margins, which make them very easy to indentify. Subspecies antiquorum has flowers that are overall much shorter than 15mm, and the legume has only one seed. The more common subspeciues has larger flowers and the legume has more than two leaves, although there are transitions in form between the two species.
