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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Lobularia maritima - (L.) Desv.
Family
Brassicaceae
Common Name
Sweet Alyssum
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Alyssum maritimum (L.) Desv.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Petals 4, rounded, white, flattened with short claw.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Thalamiflorae
 
Order :
Parietales
Plant Description

Annual, erect, glabrous herb; stem branched, leaves alternate, sessile, hairy, lanceolate or linear, margin entire; flowers small, sweet smelling, densely clustered in racemes; sepals 4, short, erect or spreading, equal at base; petals 4, rounded, white, flattened with short claw; stamens 6, filaments often winged or with appendage, yellow anthers; ovary 1-celled, many ovuled, pareital placentation, stigma bilobed, style varying in length; pods short, concave or convex in centre and flat at the margin, septum membranous, entire or perforated; seeds 2-10 flattened.

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