Sweet Alison - Lobularia maritima
Short spreading plant, with pointed untoothed leaves. Flowers white, 5 to 6 mm, sweetly scented, petals not notched, in dense clusters at first, but elongating in fruit.
Rocky and sandy places, waste ground usually as an escape from cultivation, and often close to habitation.
Flowers June to September.
Annual.
A widespread casual escape from cultivation in Britain.
Occasional as a casual escape from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 18 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby
26 April 2023
Saharima Roenisch
Clarendon Park
16 September 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester, Ashfield Road (pavement)
19 July 2019
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Species profile
- Common names
- Sweet Alison
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 18/06/2015 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 26/04/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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Saharima Roenisch
Clarendon Park
16 September 2020
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby
26 April 2023
Saharima Roenisch
Stoneygate
05 November 2018
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester, Ashfield Road (pavement)
19 July 2019
Saharima Roenisch
Stoneygate
05 November 2018
