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Common Name: hoary alyssum
Scientific Name: Berteroa incana (L.) DC.
Family Name: Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) - Mustard Family

Identification Notes:

life cycle - annual, biennial or short-lived perennial, reproducing by seed

stems - upright or ascending, grayish-green, fine white hairs, branched near base and near top growth habit 1, growth habit 2, growth habit 3, growth habit 4, seedling

leaves - alternate, lanceolate or oblong, sessile or short petioled, entire, fine white hairs leaves

flowers - 4-petaled, white, petals deeply notched; densely clustered terminal racemes at flowering, elongating after flowering and during pod formation flowers 1, flowers 2

seedpods - oblong, hairy, beaked at tip seedpods

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