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Helosciadium bermejoi

Helosciadium bermejoi
Photo: MIPSG/SSC/IUCN, CC BY-SA 2.5

Helosciadium bermejoi is a critically endangered perennial in the carrot family, endemic to Menorca in the Balearic Islands, Spain. It survives in a single locality with fewer than a hundred individuals, so it is not a plant for home gardens and should not be collected from the wild.

Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Grows in wet or waterlogged habitat, so keep the root zone consistently saturated if cultivated.
Soil
Wet mud or shallow freshwater margin soils.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Baleares (E. Menorca)
Climate
subtropical

About

Helosciadium bermejoi, synonym Apium bermejoi, is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.

Where it grows

H. bermejoi is endemic to Menorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain, and the total population is now restricted to a single locality in the northeast part of the island. Across the two populations at this spot, there are fewer than a hundred individuals surviving.

Other Helosciadium plants

Helosciadium × longipedunculatum · Fool's Watercress · Creeping Marshwort · Helosciadium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helosciadium bermejoi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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