| Scientific Name: | Iberis sempervirens |
| Common Name: | evergreen candytuft, rock candytuft, candytuft |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Container planting, Filler, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Lustrous, Linear, Oblong, Spatulate, Dentate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Purple, Pink, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Silicle, Green, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low growing spreading (semi-)evergreen; leaves spiralled, linear to spathulate, most blades 2.5-4.5cm long x 3-5mm wide, glabrous, margins entrie; racemes flat-topped; forets with 4 bright white petals (some cultivars pink to purple), Apr-May; silicles ovate to rounded and usually notched, 6-8mm x 5-6mm (racemes elongate as they form). | |