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Lobularia maritima (Sweet alyssum, Sweet alison)

[= Alyssum maritinum]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Brassicales > Family: Brassicaceae

Commonly cultivated in southern African gardens and has escaped from cultivation in the Western Cape.

 

Sweet Alyssum or Sweet Alison Lobularia maritima  growing in Cape Town garden. [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]