Brassica maritma - Sea cabbage (Mustard Family)
Valenciano: Ballaster
Spanish: Brasicaceas
A robust plant with leaves in a basal rosette; leaves oblong and dentate, pinnate with triangular lateral lobes with blunt ends. Flowers yellow, 4 petals 12-16mm. This species is autochthonous* to the sub-betic mountains of northern Alicante\ southern Valencia (i.e. the Marina Alta)
Flowers: February to May

*("Autochthonous" derives from Greek autochthon, "of or from the earth or land itself," from auto-, "self" + chthon, "earth." One that is autochthonous is an autochthon (pronounced \aw-TOCK-thuhn\)).

Marina Alta Walks