Globularia alypum is a perennial bushy plant that reaches up to 40-80 cm long. Juvenile branches and leaves are covered with minute calcareous dots. Leaves are 0.5-2 x 0.3-0.8 cm, alternate, or clustered at the nodes on old branches, glabrous, obovate to spathulate, with entire margins, mucronate apex. Flowers are small, blue and arranged in terminal heads with a hairy calyx.
Mareotic Sector, North Sinai.
Spain, Portugal, North Africa, East Mediterranean region.
Calcareous ridges.
Height: 40-80 cm
Globularia alypum, the Alypo globe daisy or shrubby globularia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, with a Mediterranean distribution.[1][2] A shrub that is often co-dominant in the calcareous shrublands in which it occurs, it is a purgative.[3][4]
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Botanical ilustration
Habit
Spent flower
Globularia alypum, the Alypo globe daisy or shrubby globularia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, with a Mediterranean distribution. A shrub that is often co-dominant in the calcareous shrublands in which it occurs, it is a purgative.
Botanical ilustration
Habit
Spent flower
