Solenopsis laurentia (L.) C. Presl

Spice In the field

Family: CAMPANULACEAE

Genus: Solenopsis

Sinònims: Solenopsis laurentia (L.) C. Presl subsp. laurentia

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Ibiza. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytic silicolous fields. Therophytic communities on humid soils.

Characteristics: A very tiny plant, scarcely a few centimetres in height. It forms a rosette of basal leaves, with a wide, obtuse tip; the flowers are blue and around four centimetres long. It generally lives in moist soils, which can become flooded, without carbonates, forming part of the plant communities of tiny plants. Solenopsis minuta subsp. balearica is quite a lot larger, it is perennial and lives in the cracks where water trickles.