''Globularia salicina'' is a shrub native to the archipelago of

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and to the central and western

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Description

Erect shrub up to 2 m high with slender branches. Leaves 3.5-7 x 0.5–3 cm, alternate, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, entire, glabrous, acute, attenuate at the base, erect to erectopatent, evergreen. Inflorescences in dense globular heads with tomentose to glabrescent ovate axillary bracts, with densely long ciliate margins. Heads often less than 1.5 cm across, often crowded towards the tips of the stems, pale powder blue or whitish, hermaphrodite and zygomorphic. Calyx tubular, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, margins ciliate. Corolla 4 mm long with a slender tube, 2-lipped, the upper lip almost absent, the lower with 3 long lobes. Stamens exserted 4, style exserted, stigma bilobed. Fruit a small 1-seeded nut 1 mm, dark brown.

Distribution

Common in

on hillsides, cliffs, slopes, among rocks, and rough grassland. Found mostly below 300 m, seldom above 400 m in the north, but up to 700 m in the south. Rare in Porto Santo and also known from Deserta Grande. Rare on

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, but common on southern slopes in

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and on northern coastal region of

La Gomera La Gomera () is one of Spain's Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. With an area of , it is the third-smallest of the archipelago's eight main islands. It belongs to the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. La Gomer ...

. It is also found in El Hierro and in the north eastern region of

La Palma La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. La Pa ...

Gallery

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References

* Press, J. R. and M. J. Short. ''Flora of

''.

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, UK. 1994. * David Bramwell and Zoë Bramwell. ''Wild Flowers of the

''. Editorial Rueda,

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, España. 2001. {{Taxonbar, from=Q10290166 salicina Flora of the Canary Islands Flora of Madeira Endemic flora of Macaronesia