| Scientific Name: | Alyssum montanum 'Berggold' |
| Common Name: | mountain gold alyssum |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Africa, Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pubescent, Branching hairs, Oblanceolate, Spatulate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Yellow, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Silicle, Green, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 6-20cm long; leaves evergreen, alternate, spatulate-oblanceolate, most 1-3cm long x 5-12mm wide, stellate hairs; corymb-like raceme, florets with 4 bright yellow petals 4-6mm long; silicles 3-4mm wide, style point remains at apex, and the raceme elongates as the fruit forms. | |