The most common types include Easter Bonnet, Snow Crystals, Lavender Sweet Alyssum, Royal Carpet, and Pastel Carpet. The oldest variety of Sweet Alyssum featured only white flowers, but now there are over a hundred varieties of Alyssum grown globally with flowers of white, pink, purple, and light orange. The bush blooms nearly year-round in warmer climates, only stopping during the hottest time of the year to preserve energy. The plant is often arranged in gardens as a companion crop, and the sweet blooms and dense foliage attract a host of pests and beneficial insects. Alyssum is drought tolerant and self-seeding, making it a highly favored garden plant. The plant is also known as Sweet Alyssum, Sweet Alice, Sweet Alison, and carpet flowers and is a member of the Brassicaceae family. The small blooms emit a rich, honeyed aroma and have an intense, peppery flavor with bitter-sweet and earthy undertones.Īlyssum flowers bloom from June to October in the Northern Hemisphere and may bloom year-round in warmer climates with no winter frost.Īlyssum flowers, botanically classified as both Lobularia maritima and Alyssum maritimum, grow on a short bushy plant that spreads quickly and vigorously as a ground cover. Alyssum flowers grow along thin, branching stems with alternating blue-green, lance-shaped leaves covered in tiny hairs called trichomes. The delicate blossoms form in umbels and develop in various hues, ranging from paper white to deep purple, often on the same bush. Alyssum flowers are tiny blossoms, averaging 8 to 12 millimeters in diameter, and are comprised of four rounded petals creating a tiny cross-shape, surrounding pin-sized yellow anthers.
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