Thyme-leaved fumana
Fumana thymifolia
Family · Cistaceae · Harmless
The tiny cushion with thyme-like leaves and yellow crumpled-petalled flowers, clinging to limestone slabs and skeletal soils. It is a rockrose the size of a hand.
Scrubland · Walls and rocks · Uplands
Also known ashoary fumana
How to tell it
Very small, narrow, opposite leaves with sticky glandular hairs. Solitary yellow flowers with five fragile petals, the stalk bending down after flowering. Woody but only a few centimetres tall.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
It counts as an indicator of shallow limestone soil and as an example of how small a woody plant can be.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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