Cynara is a genus of thistle-like perennial plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, northwestern Africa, and the Canary Islands. The genus name comes from the Greek kynara, which means "artichoke".
The genus Ophrys is a large group of orchids from the alliance Orchis in the subtribe Orchidinae. They are widespread across much of Europe, North Africa, Caucasus, the Canary Islands, and the Middle East as far east as Turkmenistan.
Asphodelus is a genus of mainly perennial flowering plants in the asphodel family Asphodelaceae that was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The genus was formerly included in the lily family (Liliaceae). The genus is native to temperate Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent, and some species have been introduced to, and are now naturalized in, other places such as New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and southwestern United States. Many asphodels are popular garden plants, which grow in well-drained soils with abundant natural light.
The common buttonquail, also called Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble but are unrelated to the true of quails.
Gagea is a large genus of spring flowers in the lily family. It is found primarily in Eurasia with a few species extending into North Africa and one species in North America.
Xeranthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Southern Europe.
Catananche is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region.
Micromeria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, with a center of diversity in the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. It is sometimes placed within the genus Satureja. The name is derived from the Greek words μῑκρος (mīkros), meaning "small," and μερίς (meris), meaning "portion," referring to the leaves and flowers.
- Micromeria acropolitanaHalácsy - Greece
- Micromeria albanica(K.Malý) Šilic - Albania, Yugoslavia
- Micromeria × angosturaeP.Pérez Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. tenuis subsp. linkii × M. varia subsp. canariensis)
- Micromeria arganietorum(Emb.) R.Morales - Morocco
- Micromeria benthamiiWebb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria × benthamineolensSvent. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. pineolens)
- Micromeria biflora(Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Benth. - Himalayas from Afghanistan to Myanmar
- Micromeria × bourlieriMaire & Le Lièvre - Algeria, Morocco (M. graeca × M. inodora)
- Micromeria brivesiiBatt. - Morocco
- Micromeria × broussonetiiA.Santos, A.Acev.-Rodr. & Reyes-Bet. - Canary Islands (M. densiflora × M. varia)
- Micromeria browicziiZiel. & Kit Tan - Greece
- Micromeria chionistraeMeikle - Cyprus
- Micromeria conferta(Coss. & Daveau) Stefani - Libya
- Micromeria × confusaG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. lanata)
- Micromeria cremnophilaBoiss. & Heldr. - Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
- Micromeria cristata(Hampe) Griseb. - Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Iran, Cyprus
- Micromeria croatica(Pers.) Schott - Albania, Yugoslavia
- Micromeria cymuligeraBoiss. & Hausskn. - Turkey
- Micromeria danaensisDanin - Jordan
- Micromeria debilisPomel - Algeria, Morocco
- Micromeria densifloraBenth. - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria ellipticaK.Koch - Turkey
- Micromeria filiformis(Aiton) Benth. - Corsica, Sardinia, Balearic Islands
- Micromeria flacca(Nábelek) Hedge - Turkey, Iraq
- Micromeria flagellarisBaker - Madagascar
- Micromeria fontanesiiPomel - Algeria, Morocco
- Micromeria forbesiiBenth. - Cape Verde Islands
- Micromeria fruticosa(L.) Druce - Eastern Mediterranean
- Micromeria glomerataP.Pérez - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria graeca(L.) Benth. ex Rchb. - Mediterranean from Morocco + Portugal to Turkey
- Micromeria guichardii(Quézel & Zaffran) Brullo & Furnari - Libya
- Micromeria hedgeiRech.f. - Iran
- Micromeria helianthemifoliaWebb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria herpyllomorphaWebb & Berthel. - La Palma in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria hispidaBoiss. & Heldr. ex Benth. - Crete
- Micromeria hochreutineri(Briq.) Maire - Algeria, Morocco
- Micromeria × hybridaZagan - Greece including Crete (M. graeca × M. nervosa)
- Micromeria hyssopifoliaWebb & Berthel. - Tenerife + El Hierro in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria imbricata (Forssk.)C.Chr. - Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to Transvaal, Arabian Peninsula
- Micromeria inodora(Desf.) Benth. - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain including Balearic Islands
- Micromeria × intermediaG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. helianthemifolia)
- Micromeria juliana(L.) Benth. ex Rchb. - Mediterranean
- Micromeria kerneriMurb. - Yugoslavia
- Micromeria lachnophyllaWebb & Berthel. - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria lanata(C.Sm. ex Link) Benth. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria lasiophyllaWebb & Berthel. - Canary Islands
- Micromeria lepidaWebb & Berthel. La Gomera in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria leucanthaSvent. ex P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria longipedunculataBräuchler - Yugoslavia, Albania
- Micromeria macrosiphonCoss. - Morocco
- Micromeria madagascariensisBaker - Madagascar
- Micromeria marginata(Sm.) Chater - Alpes Maritimes in France, Liguria + Sardinia in Italy
- Micromeria × meteoricaHausskn. - Greece (M. cremnophila × M. juliana)
- Micromeria microphylla(d'Urv.) Benth. - Balearic Islands, Sicily, Malta, southern mainland Italy, Crete, Cyprus, Libya
- Micromeria monantha(Font Quer) R.Morales - Morocco
- Micromeria myrtifoliaBoiss. & Hohen. - from Greece to Iran
- Micromeria nervosa(Desf.) Benth. - Mediterranean from Algeria + Balearic Islands to Turkey
- Micromeria × nogalesiiG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria peltieri(Maire) R.Morales - Morocco
- Micromeria × perez-paziiG.Kunkel - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. tenuis)
- Micromeria persicaBoiss. - Iran, Iraq, Turkey
- Micromeria pineolensSvent. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria × preauxiiWebb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. varia subsp. canariensis)
- Micromeria pseudocroaticaŠilic - Yugoslavia
- Micromeria rivas-martineziiWildpret - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria serbalianaDanin & Hedge - Sinai
- Micromeria sinaicaBenth. - Sinai, Israel
- Micromeria sphacioticaBoiss. & Heldr. ex Benth.- Crete
- Micromeria sphaerophyllaBaker - Madagascar
- Micromeria suborbicularis(Alain) Borhidi - Cuba
- Micromeria × tagananensisP.Pérez - Tenerife in the Canary Islands (M. glomerata × M. varia)
- Micromeria teneriffae(Poir.) Benth. ex G.Don - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria tenuis(Link) Webb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
- Micromeria unguentariaSchweinf. - Ethiopia
- Micromeria variaBenth. - Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands
- Micromeria weilleri(Maire) R.Morales - Morocco
- Micromeria × wildpretiiP.Pérez - Tenerife in the Canary Islands (M. rivas-martinezii × M. varia)
Vulpia is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, native to many countries around the world and naturalized in many of the nations to which it is not native. It is most common in temperate regions.
Senecio glaucus is an annual member of the Asteraceae and species of the genus Senecio. It is found from the western Mediterranean to Central Asia in sandy, well-drained soil, particularly coastal and desert dunes.
Anthemideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family, Asteraceae, and the subfamily Asteroideae. They are distributed worldwide with concentrations in central Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and southern Africa. Most species of plant known as chamomile belong to genera of this tribe.
Ephedra fragilis, commonly named the joint pine, is a species of Ephedra that is native to the western Mediterranean region of southern Europe and Northern Africa, and from Madeira and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic.
Cutandia is a genus of Asian and Mediterranean plants in the grass family. It is native to lands extending from Portugal and Cape Verde to Pakistan and Kazakhstan.
Tolpis is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Africa, Southern Europe, the Middle East and Macaronesia. Many species are limited to the Canary Islands.
Coleostephus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
The Iberian pond turtle, also known as the Mediterranean pond turtle or Mediterranean turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa.
Coincya monensis is a plant species in the family Brassicaceae. Coincya monensis is native to western Europe and Morocco, but has been introduced in North America.
Patzkea is a genus of plants in the grass family.
Cistus albidus, the grey-leaved cistus, is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, with pink to purple flowers, native to south-western Europe and western north Africa.
Salix pedicellata is a species of willow. It is a shrub or small tree to about 6–8 m tall, native around the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Lebanon and Syria in the north and from the Canary Islands to Tunisia in the south. Salix canariensis may be treated as a subspecies of S. pedicellata.
