Lobularia maritima(L.) Desv.

sweet alyssum

WFO wfo-0000358665 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Lobularia maritima, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203138064
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. b Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197796832
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202497835
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Vasileia Sef
fig. d Vasileia Sef, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195307401
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195896583
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. f Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195818191
Lobularia maritima, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195895681

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Flowering n = 3,583 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,583 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 32 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adyseton halimifolium Link
  • Adyseton maritimum (L.) Link
  • Adyseton orbiculare Bubani
  • Alyssum halimifolium L.
  • Alyssum halimifolium (All.) Willd.
  • Alyssum jonasianum H.J.Coste & Sennen
  • Alyssum maritimum (L.) Lam.
  • Alyssum minimum L.
  • Alyssum odoratum Voss
  • Alyssum odoratum hort.
  • Alyssum strigulosum Amo
  • Aurinia halimifolia (Boiss.) Cullen & T.R.Dudley
  • Clypeola halimifolia Link
  • Clypeola maritima L.
  • Crucifera koniga E.H.L.Krause
  • Draba maritima (L.) Lam.
  • Glyce maritima (L.) Lindl.
  • Hormathophylla halimifolia (Boiss.) P.Küpfer
  • Koniga halymifolia Rchb.
  • Koniga maritima (L.) Sm.
  • Koniga maroccana Gand.
  • Koniga strigulosa Nyman
  • Lepidium angustifolium Rusby
  • Lepidium fragrans Willd.

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.