Flora of North America species comparison

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Iberis sempervirens

edging candytuft, evergreen candytuft
Habit Perennials or subshrubs; (evergreen, with sterile shoots); glabrous.
Stems

decumbent, branched basally and distally, (0.5–)1–2.5 dm.
Basal leaves

(of sterile shoots) sessile;

blade linear-oblanceolate, 1–3(–5) cm × 2–5 mm.
Cauline leaves

(of flowering shoots) similar to basal, blade smaller, margins entire.
Racemes

slightly elongated in fruit.
Flowers

sepals oblong or ovate, 2–4 mm;

petals white or sometimes pink, abaxial pair 5–13 × 2–7 mm, adaxial pair 3–6 × 1–3 mm.
Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending, 4–11 mm.
Fruits

suborbicular to broadly ovate, 6–8 × 5–6 mm, apically notched;

valves extending into subacute wing;

style 1–3 mm, exserted beyond apical notch.
Seeds

narrowly winged, 2–3 mm.
2n

= 22.

Iberis sempervirens
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Escape from cultivation, abandoned gardens
Distribution
from FNA
CA; MI; NY; s Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 564.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Iberideae > Iberis
Sibling taxa
I. amara, I. umbellata
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 648. (1753)
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