Iberis sempervirens

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 648. 1753.

Common names: Evergreen candytuft
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 564. Mentioned on page 563.

Perennials or subshrubs; (evergreen, with sterile shoots); glabrous. Stems decumbent, branched basally and distally, (0.5–) 1–2.5 dm. Basal leaves (of sterile shoots) sessile; blade linear-oblanceolate, 1–3 (–5) cm × 2–5 mm. Cauline leaves (of flowering shoots) similar to basal, blade smaller, margins entire. Racemes slightly elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, 4–11 mm. Flowers: sepals oblong or ovate, 2–4 mm; petals white or sometimes pink, abaxial pair 5–13 × 2–7 mm, adaxial pair 3–6 × 1–3 mm. Fruits suborbicular to broadly ovate, 6–8 × 5–6 mm, apically notched; valves extending into subacute wing; style 1–3 mm, exserted beyond apical notch. Seeds narrowly winged, 2–3 mm. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat: Escape from cultivation, abandoned gardens

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., Mich., N.Y., s Europe, also in South America

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Iberis sempervirens"
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
oblong +  and ovate +
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +
Linnaeus +
not +  and rosulate +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
not auriculate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
pinnatifid +  and dentate +
linear-oblanceolate +
smaller +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
sessile +  and petiolate +
well-developed +
distinct +
not +  and differentiated +
Evergreen candytuft +
emarginate +  and entire +
Calif. +, Mich. +, N.Y. +, s Europe +  and also in South America +
straight +  and curved +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +  and zygomorphic +
pink;purple +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
notched +, suborbicular +  and broadly ovate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
angustiseptate +
Escape from cultivation, abandoned gardens +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
basal +  and cauline +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
lobed;dentate +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
pink +  and white +
rudimentary +
cruciform +
Flowering Apr–Jul. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
divaricate-ascending +
slender +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
not +  and mucilaginous +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
ovate +  and flattened +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (?) +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
ovate +  and oblong +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
reduced +
latiseptate +, schizocarpic +, samaroid +  and lomentaceous +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
angustiseptate +, flat +, angled +, terete +, torulose +, not +, segmented +  and nutletlike +
tetradynamous +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
decumbent +  and erect +
2-lobed +  and entire +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Cruciferae +
Iberis sempervirens +
species +
scale-like +  and forked +
anastomosing +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
subacute +
11 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +