Flora canaria > Especies silvestres
Daucus durieua
Daucus durieua Lange in Willk. & Lange
Familia
APIACEAE
Daucus durieua is a species of annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Apiaceae family.
Unlike other species in its genus (such as the wild carrot), it is immediately distinguishable by the arrangement of its flowers:
It develops sessile or subsessile axillary umbels (which have virtually no stem or peduncle of their own), which serves to distinguish it directly from Daucus arcanus.
It is a small plant, 5 to 40 cm tall, with a hispid texture (covered in stiff or coarse hairs).
The leaves are divided (2–3-pinnately dissected) with linear terminal segments and veins that feel rough to the touch.
The fruits, measuring between 3.5 and 6 mm, are elliptical in shape and covered with rows of stiff spines that are notably wide in comparison with the body of the mericarp.
It is found mainly in the southern Mediterranean region, covering the centre and south of the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) and parts of the Middle East such as Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. It has also been recorded in the Canary Islands.
It grows in thermophilic grasslands, scrub clearings, nitrogen-rich grasslands and open, stony, sun-exposed terrain. It adapts well to both calcareous and siliceous soils (granite, slate or quartzite).
It generally grows at altitudes ranging from 300 to 1,700 metres above sea level.
It flowers in spring, mainly between March and June.
Daucus durieua is a species of annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Apiaceae family.
Unlike other species in its genus (such as the wild carrot), it is immediately distinguishable by the arrangement of its flowers:
It develops sessile or subsessile axillary umbels (which have virtually no stem or peduncle of their own), which serves to distinguish it directly from Daucus arcanus.
It is a small plant, 5 to 40 cm tall, with a hispid texture (covered in stiff or coarse hairs).
The leaves are divided (2–3-pinnately dissected) with linear terminal segments and veins that feel rough to the touch.
The fruits, measuring between 3.5 and 6 mm, are elliptical in shape and covered with rows of stiff spines that are notably wide in comparison with the body of the mericarp.
It is found mainly in the southern Mediterranean region, covering the centre and south of the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) and parts of the Middle East such as Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. It has also been recorded in the Canary Islands.
It grows in thermophilic grasslands, scrub clearings, nitrogen-rich grasslands and open, stony, sun-exposed terrain. It adapts well to both calcareous and siliceous soils (granite, slate or quartzite).
It generally grows at altitudes ranging from 300 to 1,700 metres above sea level.
It flowers in spring, mainly between March and June.
