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Jacobaea maritima subsp. sicula (Sicilian Silver Ragwort) |
Jacobaea maritima subsp. sicula (ASTERACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Jacobaea maritima subsp. siculaN. G. Passal. et al.
Published in Ind. Sem. Horti Panorm. 1859: 30 (1860) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Asteraceae
Bercht. & J.Presl (=Compositae) (The Daisy or Sunflower Family)
125 species from the Asteraceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Sicilian Silver Ragwort | Maltese name(s) : | Kromb il-baħar isfar | Status for Malta : | Subendemic. Found in Malta and neighbouring territories such as in south Sicily, Lampedusa, Pantelleria, etc. | Frequency : | Very Common
Common Frequent Scarce Rare
Very rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: CHAMEOPHYTE (dwarf or small shrubs)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Mar-Jul | Colour of Flowers: | Yellow | Remarks : | After a morphological and molecular study on the Jacobaea maritima complex, it was found that the Maltese plants (formerely known as Senecio bicolor) are different from the other Jacobaea species or subspecies; therefore described as a new taxon: Jacobaea maritima subsp. sicula. This subspecies is also and only found in Sicily and its islands and so this plant is a endemic to Sicily and Malta (subendemic to Malta). It is protected by regulation 26 of legal notice LN311/2006 |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Rocky and sandy places |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Botanical Description: |
Dwarf shrub 25-50(-100) cm. Stems much-branched at the base and sometimes also above, stout, densely white-tomentose, with the leaves mostly crowded towards the base of the flowering stems and forming rosettes on the non-flowering shoots. Leaves 4-15 x 2.5-7 cm, ovate to lanceolate, dentate to pinnate, densely whitish-tomentose beneath, more or less arachnoid-tomentose, greenish and glabrescent above. Capitula many, 12-15 mm in diameter, in dense, compound corymbs. Involucre 5-8 mm, with up to 5 supplementary bracts 1-2 mm. Ligules 10-13, 3-6 mm, yellow. |
Distributional range: |
Mediterranean region locally naturalized elsewhere. |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Corse, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Greece, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Introduced in the Balaeric Islands, Britain (excl. Northern Ireland and Channel islands), Ireland, Portugal, Russia and former USSR |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
? AE(G) Ga(F) Gr It Si(S) Tn Tu(A) [-Uk(K)] |
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