TUBERARIA GUTTATA

Family:- CISTACEAE/Sect. SCORPIOIDES

Common Names:- Spotted rockrose, Annual rockrose.

Synonyms:- For a full list of homotypic synonyms. See

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:169408-1

#synonyms

Meaning:- Tuberaria (L) Tuber.

Guttata (L) Spotted, covered with small glandular dots.

General description:- Villous annual , very variable, often rather delicate.

Stem:-

1) Up to 30 cm, often unbranched.

Leaves:-

1) Basal rosette often persisting to anthesis.

2) Basal and lower cauline broadly to narrowly elliptical or obovate, exstipulate.

leaves with stellate hairs on both surfaces or only simple hairs above.

Flowers:-

1) Yellow, 10-20mm, with a small to large purplish-brown blotch at the base of each

Fruit:-

1) Capsule 3-valved.

Key features:-

1) Flowers distinctly pedicellate.

2) Pedicels glabrous; longer than the sepals during anthesis.

3) Outer sepals much smaller than the inner, not accrescent.

4) Leaves obovate to lanceolate or oblong (the uppermost linear), villous, flat (or the

uppermost with the margins ± revolute)

Habitat:- Dry open shrubby vegetation, grassy, sandy and waste places, open

woodland, sand-dunes.

Distribution:- Widespread and common throughout the Mediterranean. Rare in the

east, more common in the west of Crete.

Flowering time:- Feb-June.

Photos by:- Yannis Zacharakis