Minuartia hybrida (Vill.) Schischkin

Spice Detail In the field

Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE

Genus: Minuartia

Sinònims: Minuartia tenuifolia (L.) Hiern.

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

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

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Therophytic calicole fields. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Therophytics communities.

Characteristics: A small upright annual, very fine in composition, with opposite linear leaves. Branches out at the top of the plant and it is here that it develops it flowers, sepals very acute and longer than the petals, Can be told apart from Minuartia mediterranea as its floral peduncles are longer than the sepals, although there are intermediate versions which make it difficult to tell the differnce between both species, other suthors consider the two as subspecies of one single species. Lives in terraphytic fields and can be found in flower all year round.