Calle de la Lígula
Takes its name from the ligule, a botanical term for a small tongue-like part of the leaf or flower in grasses and daisies.
The name comes from the vocabulary of botany. The ligule is a small tongue that appears in some plants: in grasses, a thin membrane where the leaf sheath meets the blade; in the daisy family —the daisy, the sunflower, the dandelion— each of the elongated petals that ring the flower’s centre and that the eye reads as a crown of strips. The word comes from the Latin ligula, “little tongue”.
Calle de la Lígula fits this corner of the Hispanoamérica neighbourhood, where other nearby streets bear plant names. It is a short street, true to the tiny size of the plant part that lends it its name.