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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Full Sun
6+ hours of direct sun per day
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May
Plant Type
Perennials, Ground Cover, Herbaceous Perennial, Perennial
Lifespan
Perennial, Woody
Flower
Numerous small, white flowers of up to 2 in. clusters in March-May. Petals are scissor shaped or as a narrow "X" they are oblong-spatulate shape, clawed, with the outer 2 petals longer than the inner 2. Petals are 1-1.5 cm in diameter. Inflorescence a flat-topped, congested raceme, terminal, around 4-5 cm. Flowers can turn light pink as they get older.
Fruit
The fruit is an orbicular-elliptic silicle, green maturing to brown, and 1/5".
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Songbirds
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Taxonomy
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Iberis
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