Iberis semperflorens L.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Iberis semperflorens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/iberis/iberis-semperflorens/). Accessed 2024-09-20.

Genus

Iberis

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

apex: (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
calcareous: Relating to lime- or chalk-rich soils or water.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Iberis semperflorens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/iberis/iberis-semperflorens/). Accessed 2024-09-20.

An evergreen shrub up to 2 ft high of bushy shape, free from down. Leaves narrowly obovate, rounded at the apex, tapered to the base, 3⁄4 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide, dark dull green, not toothed. Flowers white or tinged with pink, fragrant, produced in crowded, flattish racemes 1 to 2 in. long and wide. Seed-pod 3⁄8 in. wide, 1⁄4 in. long, very slightly notched at the apex.

Native of S. Italy and Sicily, often in calcareous soil; introduced in 1679. In shape and size of leaf it resembles I. gibraltarica, but the latter is well distinguished by its toothed foliage, also by the more distinctly notched seed-pod. I. semperflorens is the tenderest of these shrubby candytufts. Suitable for sunny places on the south coast. Its flowering season is from November to April.

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