Taxon: Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv.

Common names:

• sweet alison   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• sweet-Alice   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sweet-alyssum   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• xiang xue qiu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• alysse corbeille d'argent   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• lobulaire maritime   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Strand-Silberkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• lágrimas de la virgen   (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Spanish (Peru)
  
• strandkrassing   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Eur ed2; Dict Gard)
  
• Weed   (fide Pacif I Ecosyst Risk)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Egypt - Sinai; Turkey [Islands]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Greece - Crete; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Lithuania; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [w.]; Italy [n.]; Montenegro; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [n. & w.]; Spain [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Utah
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Austral Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• León, B. 1998. pers. comm. [re. Spanish (Peru) common names].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Alyssum maritimum (L.) Lam.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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