Lupinus micranthus Guss.

Spice Flower Fruit In the field

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Lupinus

Catalan common name: Llobí hirsut.

Spanish common name: Alberjón peludo. Altramuz peludo.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Girona.

Distribution in the islands: Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic silicolous fields. Fields with acid soils.

Characteristics: This leguminoseae is easy to recognise because of its leaves with leaflets displayed in a palmate shape, which means that all of them come out from the same point like the fingers of a hand. The flowers are blue; they appear at the top of the plant forming a kind of compact spike. The whole plant is covered in long, silky hairs. It lives in farmlands, along path-sides and small meadows of annual plants. It flowers in deep spring.