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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 4 to 8"
Plant Spread: 6 to 9"
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Purple
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Groundcover
Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Various insects
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Sweet Alyssum
  • Sweet Alison
  • Seaside Lobularia

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Courtesy Outsidepride
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Location: z5 MA, my garden
Date: 2011-10-10
Searching for the sun in urn with Musa cavendish nana
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