A botanical sanctuary ...


- Protected plants

The Roque-Haute Nature Reserve protects almost 600 plant species over the 154 hectares which have so far been inventoried. Of these species, 8% are protected on the national or European level. It is, however, for its exceedingly rare semi-aquatic, primitive, ferns (Isoetes duriaei, Isoetes setacea, Marsilea strigosa, Pilularia minuta) and an amazing variety of mosses and liverworts - 103 species of bryophytes in all - that the Reserve is best-known.
Let's browse through the Roque-Haute virtual herbarium :

Ferns and related plants / Semi-aquatic flowering plants / Dry habitat plants

- Ferns and related plants :

Isoetes setacea, ( profile )
Isoetes duriae,
Marsilea strigosa, ( profile )
Pilularia minuta (pillwort),
Ophioglossum azoricum (Adder's tongue from the Azores) ( profile )


- Semi-aquatic flowering plants :

Menta cervina (cervine mint),
Ranonculus lateriflorus (an unusual buttercup),
Ranonculus ophioglossifolius, ( profile )
Lythrum thymifolium and Lythrum tribracteatum (three loosestrifes), ( profile )
Tamarix africanus (African tamarisk),
Pulicaria sicula (Sicilian fleabane),
Pulicaria vulgaris (small fleabane),
Myosotis sicula (Jersey forgetmenot),
Lotus conimbricensis (a birdsfoot trefoil),

  Elatina macropod (waterwort),
Crassula vaillanti (a stonecrop),
Bufonia tenuifolia,
Bupleurum semicompositum (Bupleurum sp.),
Chenopodium urbicum (upright goosefoot),
Damasonium polyspermum (star-fruit),
Heliotropium supinum (a heliotrope),
Linaria supina (prostrate toadflax),
Polygonum romanum (bistorte),
Trifolium ornithopodioides (fenugreek)

- Dry habitat plants :

Aristolochia clusii (a birthwort),
Orobanche laevis (a broom rape),
Romulea ramiflora (iris),
Romulea columnae (sand crocus),
Gagea granatelli ( a star of Bethlehem),
Nonea échioides (a nonea),
Picris pauciflore (an ox-tongue),
Taeniatherum caput-meduse (a grass),
Valerianella microcarpa (cornsalad),
Velezia rigida,
Veronica acinifolia (French speedwell)