Flowers (cultivated). Photo: JC Schou, Denmark

Plants. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Hawaii

Seed case (cultivated). Photo: Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Line drawing in Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions . Vol. 2: 153

Common Name

Sweet Alyssum, Sweet Alison

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Introduced perennial forb to 40cm tall. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 2-4cm long, linear to flat, hairy, margins entire. Flowers fragrant, white, pink, or purple, with 4 petals, in groups at the tops of the stems, and in groups on stems originating at the bases of the leaves.

PlantNET description with line drawings:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lobularia~maritima