The flora of Lanzarote reflects altitude, exposure, humidity and long adaptation to volcanic soils and island isolation.
Lava, wind and white architecture: an island that turned the volcano into a visual language and way of life. Vegetation makes humidity, wind, salinity, altitude and volcanic soils legible.
Among its main reference points are Timanfaya and eruptions, Art and landscape, Adaptive agriculture, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Flora also preserves traces of traditional uses, cultivation and environmental change.
Key points
Tabaibal y cardonal arido
La flora mas extendida de Lanzarote es el tabaibal dulce y el cardón, adaptados a la extrema aridez y el viento sahariano que barre la isla.
Vegetacion del jable
Las comunidades vegetales del jable incluyen plantas halofitas y psammofitas especializadas en suelos arenosos con alta salinidad y escasa cobertura vegetal.
Flora de Famara y los riscos
Los riscos de Famara, mas humedos por la influencia del alisio, conservan comunidades vegetales con endemismos propios de Lanzarote y Fuerteventura.
Cultivos en picón y resistencia agraria
El picón negro de La Geria permite que la vid sobreviva gracias a su capacidad de retener la humedad nocturna, una solucion agricola de adaptacion al clima desertico.
Municipalities of Lanzarote
See all →- ArrecifeArrecife is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- HaríaHaría is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- San BartoloméSan Bartolomé is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TeguiseTeguise is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TíasTías is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- TinajoTinajo is a municipality of Lanzarote, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.