Senecio de Saladar

Appearance

Hemicryptophyte. Perennial herbaceous plant, thick strain. Basal leaves in a rosette, up to 10 x 5 cm, cuneate, spatulate, obtuse, fleshy, entire with up to 7 apical teeth, glabrescent. Minor cauline leaves, lanceolate to linear. Inflorescence in corymb, up to 8 chapters. Heads up to 12 mm in diameter. Two rows of bracts, the outer one with 4-6. External bracts up to 7 mm long, hairy, broadly linear, scarious margins. Smaller external bracts, without scarious margin, linear. Yellow flowers. Ligules up to 13. Fruit in cypsela, achene up to 5 mm, hairy.

Distribution

Ibero-North African element present with isolated populations in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. In Murcia it is only known from the gypsum area of ​​El Rincón (Lorca).

Habitat

It lives in albardinales and thyme groves on margoyesiferous substrates with a certain salinity, within the mesomediterranean floor with a semi-arid ombrotype. It coexists with Centaurium quadrifolium, Frankenia thymifolia, Herniaria fruticosa subsp. erecta, Lygeum spartum, Teucrium balthazaris, etc.