Flora of Selvagens

Chenopodiastrum selvagense is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to the Savage Islands and Desertas Islands in Macaronesia.

Schizogyne is a plant genus in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae. It was established in 1828 by French botanist Alexandre de Cassini. Species Schizogyne glaberrima DC. - Canary Islands (Tenerife + Gran Canaria) Schizogyne obtusifolia Cass. - Canary Islands (Tenerife) Schizogyne sericea (L.f.) DC. - Canary Islands, Salvage Islands

Euphorbia anachoreta is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, endemic to the Fora Islet of the Savage Islands. This species has been considered a Critically Endangered species due to its highly restricted population size. As most other succulent members of the genus Euphorbia, its trade is regulated under Appendix II of CITES. In the wild, it grows in the crags of basaltic rocks, where it is sheltered from salty winds.

Limonium pectinatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to the Canary Islands.

Daucus edulis (Portuguese: Cenoura-da-rocha) is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the celery family Apiaceae. It is endemic to Madeira.

Asparagus nesiotes is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Canary Islands and the Savage Islands (Selvagens). Asparagus nesiotes is a source of feed for small ruminants. Two subspecies are accepted. Asparagus nesiotes subsp. nesiotes is native to Selvagem Grande in the Selvagens. Asparagus nesiotes subsp. purpuriensis Marrero Rodr. & A.Ramos is native to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.

Argyranthemum (marguerite, marguerite daisy, dill daisy) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus are sometimes also placed in the genus Chrysanthemum. The genus is endemic to Macaronesia, occurring only on the Canary Islands, the Savage Islands, and Madeira. Argyranthemum frutescens is recorded as a food plant of the leaf-mining larva of the moth Bucculatrix chrysanthemella.

Monanthes is a genus of small, succulent, subtropical plants of the family Crassulaceae. Most species in the genus are endemic to the Canary Islands, with one species also endemic to the Savage Islands and another to the High Atlas mountains of Morocco. Its center of diversity is Tenerife, with seven species occurring on this island. On Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, only M. laxiflora occurs. Monanthes is a rare example where a species re-colonizes the continent from an island, after their ancestors have colonized the island from the continent. Monanthes are not frost-resistant. They are linked

Lotus glaucus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Madeira and the Salvage Islands. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with leaves made up of five leaflets. Its flowers are usually orange on opening. Lotus tenellus is included in a more broadly circumscribed L. glaucus by some authors, which extends its distribution to the Canary Islands.

Rubia fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Islands.

Schizogyne sericea is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Periploca laevigata is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the Canary Islands, the Savage Islands and Cape Verde. The species was described by William Aiton and was published in Hortus Kewensis in 1789. Its Spanish names are cornicabra or cornica. "Cornicabra" means goat horn.

Frankenia capitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Macaronesia (the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Salvage Islands).

Galium geminiflorum, the twinflowered bedstraw, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae, currently accepted as a distinct species. This 1838 name by Lowe should not be confused with the 1844 plant given the same name by Martens & Galeotti. Galium geminiflorum Lowe is native to certain islands of the eastern North Atlantic: Madeira, the Canary Islands and Selvagens (Savage Islands)

Astydamia is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, with 2 species. It is endemic to Northwest Africa. It is found on the Canary Islands, Mauritania, Morocco, the Savage Islands and in the Western Sahara. The genus name of Astydamia is in honour of Astydamia (from Greek mythology), the wife of Acastus, son of Pelias. It was first described and published in Coll. Mém. Vol.5 on page 53 in 1829. Plants of the World Online only accepts Astydamia latifolia (L.f.) Baill.

Autonoe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae. It includes four species native to Morocco, Western Sahara, and Macaronesia (the Canary Islands, Madeira, and Selvagens). Autonoe berthelotii (Webb & Berthel.) Speta – Canary Islands (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura) Autonoe haemorrhoidalis (Webb & Berthel.) Speta – Canary Islands Autonoe latifolia (Willd.) Speta – Canary Islands, Morocco, and Western Sahara Autonoe madeirensis (Menezes) Speta – Madeira and the Selvagens

Nucularia perrinii, known as askaf, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is the sole species in genus Nucularia. Its native range is Selvagens to the western and central Sahara and Sahel. Askaf is a crucial plant to Sahrawi camel nomads, providing salt and water to camels even during dry spells and causing a characteristic flavor to camel milk.

Fumaria muralis, known as common ramping-fumitory or wall fumitory, is a flowering herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae) native to western Europe and northwestern Africa.

Patellifolia is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Betoideae of the family Amaranthaceae. These are mostly procumbent herbs occurring in the Western Mediterranean region and Macaronesia, with some isolated occurrences in North Africa and at the Horn of Africa. They are of interest as crop wild relatives of sugar beet.

Silene uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the carnation family known by the common name sea campion.

Asplenium marinum is a fern known as the sea spleenwort because of its preference for maritime habitats. Located around the coasts of Europe from Italy in the South to Norway in the North, its most Southern distribution extends to the Northern islands of Tunisia (Galitte islands). Linnaeus was the first to describe sea spleenwort with the binomial Asplenium marinum in his Species Plantarum of 1753.

Mantisalca is a genus of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, it contains six described species.

Phagnalon saxatile, known as the mediterranean phagnalon, is a plant that can grow up to 50 centimetres (20 in) high.

Cistanche phelypaea, also spelled Cistanche phelipaea, is a species of plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It has a wide range of distribution from the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Desert in the east, through the Sahara, Cyprus, Crete and the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, to Macaronesia in the west.

Centaurea melitensis (called Maltese star-thistle in Europe, tocalote or tocolote in western North America) is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae, 1 to 11 decimetres (4 to 43 in) high, with resin-dotted leaves and spine-tipped phyllaries. This plant is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe and Africa. It was introduced to North America in the 18th century; the first documented occurrence in California is in the adobe of a building constructed in San Fernando in 1797. It is also naturalized on a number of Pacific islands.

Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (the common, 'crystalline' or 'crystallinum' iceplant, or simply 'iceplant') is a species of annual/perennial, succulent flowering plant in the Mesembryanthemum genus of the Aizoaceae family. A true Mediterranean-climate grower, this prostrate groundcover is native to coastal North Africa and Sinai, the Levant and maritime Southern Europe, and several Mediterranean and North Atlantic islands, as well. The plant is covered with large, glistening bladder cells, or water vesicles, hence its many common names such as crystallinum iceplant, crystalline iceplant or

Lobularia is a genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, closely related to (and formerly often included in) the genus Alyssum. The genus is native to Macaronesia, the Mediterranean region, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and comprises annuals and perennials growing to 10–40 cm (4–16 in) tall, with hairy oblong-oval leaves and clusters of cross-shaped (cruciform), fragrant white flowers. The name Lobularia derives from the Greek for a small pod, referring to the fruits.

Urtica membranacea is a species of annual herb in the family Urticaceae native to the Mediterranean Basin. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 39 cm tall.

Suaeda vera, also known as shrubby sea-blite, shrubby seablight or in the US sometimes as alkali seepweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae (formerly classified under the Chenopodiaceae). It is a small shrub, with very variable appearance over its wide range. It is a halophyte, and occurs in arid and semi-arid saltflats, salt marshes and similar habitats.

Crassula tillaea is a succulent plant known by its common names mossy stonecrop and moss pygmyweed. It is a small fleshy plant growing only a few centimeters in height. It is green when new and gradually turns orange and then deep red when mature. It has tiny triangular pointed leaves only a few millimeters long. A tiny flower or pair of flowers grows between each oppositely-arranged pair of leaves; the flowers are about two millimeters in length and width. The fruit is a minute follicle containing one or two seeds. This plant is native to Eurasia, particularly the Mediterranean Basin, but is