Common Name:
Candytuft
About 30 species of low growing annuals, perennials, and subshrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, linear or obovate. Flowers in clusters (raceme or corymb), each with 4 sepals, 4 petals, outer ones larger than inner petals, white or purple. Fruit broad, pod-like, often winged.
Iberis: from Iberia, Spain, source of most species.
Pronunciation:
i-BEE-ris
Family:
Brassicaceae
Cruciferae