Crepis pusilla (Sommier) Merxm.

Spice In the field

Family: COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE)

Genus: Crepis

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): South Mediterranean

IUCN Category: VUVulnerable

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytics communities.

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.