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© 2008 Neal Kramer (CalPhotos)

Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv.
Lobularia maritima, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is not native to California; it was introduced from elsewhere and naturalized in the wild.

The California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) lists plants that cause serious problems in native ecosystems. In the 2006 list, Cal-IPC classifies the statewide impact of Lobularia maritima as limited (plant profile).

Common names: sweet alyssum
Community: escaped cultivar
Elevation: between 0 and 656 feet Family: Brassicaceae
Name Status:
Recognized as current in JM93 + ICPN + PLANTS
 Synonyms:
PLANTS: Alyssum maritimum
PLANTS: Clypeola maritima
PLANTS: Koniga maritima
Distribution in California from available records:
A shaded county indicates that there are one or more ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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    For a distribution map based on other criteria (eg. more than one record within a county), see the County Distribution Analysis for this plant.

 

  There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
  There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
  There are reported records.
  There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).
Records by County: Click county name to view records (numbers are approximate).
Information about  Lobularia maritima  from other sources:
Photos on CalPhotos / Picasa / Flickr

Photos or website references on Google

USDA PLANTS Profile (LOMA)

1993 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley

Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index

Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)

    Citation:
    Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, based on data contributed by the Consortium of Calif. Herbaria and dozens of other public and private institutions and individuals.
    [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database [a non-profit organization]. Available: http://www.calflora.org/   (Accessed: Sep 02, 2010).

    Note that the information on this page comes from diverse sources, and that none of the links are sponsored.

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