Iberis umbellata

IBERIS umbellata
Candytuft

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Type:
Annual

Height: 8-12" (20-30cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Pink, white, mauve

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons)

Superorder: Dilleniiidae (Dillenia Superorder)

Order: Capparales (Caper Order)

Family: Brassicaceae (Cabbage Family)
(formerly Cruciferae)

Genus: Iberis (Candytuft)

Species: umbellata (with flowers in umbels)

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Iberis umbellata is a popular and easily-grown annual, and is particularly useful for providing colourful ground cover in poor soil. It reaches a height of about a foot, with dense heads of tiny flowers in all shades of pink and mauve, or white, in summer.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
Each individual flower produces a flat rounded seedpod with a point at the end, which together form a papery seedhead. Each seedpod has two parts, with a papery membrane between them.

Seed
The seeds are flattish oval discs. There are two seeds in each seedpod.

Seedling
The seedleaves are rounded. The first true leaves are pointed.

Seed sowing and Germination
Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 7 days.

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	Seed Pod Each individual flower produces a flat rounded seedpod with a point at the end, which together form a papery seedhead. Each seedpod has two parts, with a papery membrane between them.
	Seed The seeds are flattish oval discs. There are two seeds in each seedpod.
	Seedling The seedleaves are rounded. The first true leaves are pointed.
Seed sowing and Germination Spring: Seeds sown inside in spring germinated in 7 days.