Prospero autumnale (L.) Speta

Family: LILIACEAE

Genus: Prospero

Sinònims: Scilla autumnalis L.

Spanish common name: Jacinto endeble.

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Geophyte.

Habitats: Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytics communities.

Characteristics: A small bulbous plant that flowers at the end of summer and through the fall. Has semi-circular leaves that extend along the ground, forming a rosette that closely resembles Merendera filifolia (The cross-section of these leaves is in form of a V). Flowers are blue or pink in colour, emerge forming a raceme over a vertical axis, when fructify forma n upwards directed capsule. Lives in garrigue clearings together with other bulbous species.