Wild Candytuft - Iberis amara
Erect plant to 40 cm. The flowers are usually white, sometimes with a lilac tinge, they open into flattened clusters and each flower consists of four unequal petals.
Iberis umbellata.
Records should be supported by good photographs including a close up of the leaves.
Occurs on bare, open ground on south-facing slopes on chalk, also bare places in grassland, particularly rabbit scrapes, and in quarries. It can occur as an arable weed, and as a casual, sometimes from wild flower mixes in a wide variety of ruderal habitats.
Flowering from May to August.
Annual.
Fairly widespread as a casual in Britain.
Rarely recorded in the wild in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Burbage, Sapcote Road
29 June 2021
Graham Calow
Burbage, Sapcote Road
29 June 2021
lobed leaves
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wild Candytuft
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 29/06/2021 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 29/06/2021 (Calow, Graham)
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