Maritime Alysson

the maritime alysson is a plant with small white flowers belonging to the family of the Brassicacées (or Crucifères). Its accepted scientific name is Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv., but it is also known under the synonym Alyssum maritimum (L.) Lam. In 1753, Linné had named it Clypeola maritima . The plant is very cultivated in the gardens, with many horticultural varieties with pink or purple flowers.

Description

Ecology and habitat

Plant annual, sometimes long-lived, pushing in the areas the Mediterranean of the Europe, also met in France in the the Bay of Biscay, naturalized elsewhere. It is frequent in seaside (rocks, sands), but can also push on the slopes and the waste grounds, preferably on ground Calcaire.

Flowering: from March-April at September.
Pollination: entomogame.
Dissemination: anémochore.

General and vegetative morphology

Herbaceous plant at slightly woody, rather small base (less than 30 cm), very ramified, generally presenting itself in abundant tufts. Sheet S rather glaucous, alternate, sessile, simple and whole, narrow (of lancéolées with linear), in theory rather hairy.

Floral morphology

Inflorescence in Racème rounded at the beginning, lengthening at the end of the flowering, carrying many small Fleur S white scented (approximately 5 mm). Small chalice with four sepals. Corolla with four petals rounded. Six cheesecloth S with Anthère S yellows. Ovary supère.

Fruit and seeds

Lengthened Infrutescence carrying of many silicle S rather hairy, oval with round, containing each one two seeds.

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