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Flower
Sweet Alyssum
Lobularia maritima
Honey-scented carpet of tiny flowers for the cool season.
Recommended uses
- Edging
- Containers
- Winter color
- Plant type
- Annual flower
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Fall, Winter, Spring
- Bloom color
- White, Purple, Pink
- Mature height
- 4–8 in
- Mature width
- 8–12 in
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- Medium