Perennial Candytuft - Iberis sempervirens
Iberis sempervirens is a spreading plant to 30cm in height, with narrow, dark green leaves. Flowers pure white, in dense heads to 4 cm in width, at first flattish, later becoming rounded.
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Occasional escape from cultivation and usually seen close to habitation.
Flowering from late spring.
Evergreen plant.
There are occasional records of this species being found away from cultivation in Britain.
Rarely recorded in the wild in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Sally Cunningham
Leicester-Birmingham mainline
20 March 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Perennial Candytuft
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 20/03/2020 (Cunningham, Sally)
- Last record:
- 12/04/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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