| Scientific Name: | Lobularia maritima |
| Common Name: | sweet alyssum, alyssum |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Bedding plant, Container planting, Filler, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Silicle, Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, most elleptic-oblanceolate, 1-4cm long x 3-5mm wide; raceme tops corymb-like, florets 7-10mm wide, 4 overlapping petals; siliques form up from bottom upwards as panicles elongate 20-35cm. | |