Berlengas Rupturewort

EndemicaVulnerable

A tiny ground-hugging plant that grows nowhere else, forming a rosette of succulent, salt-adapted leaves. It clings to skeletal soils and granite fissures on Berlenga and the Farilhões and can be spotted along the island trails; its minute, inconspicuous flowers appear in June and July. It is classed as Vulnerable, its main threat the spread of the invasive hottentot fig.