Alyssum minutum


Alyssum minutum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Alyssum, family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
An annual herbaceous plant, typically reaching a size of 5–10cm, it grows on gravelly soil, rocky slopes and dry grassland. It flowers from March until early summer. Its chromosome number is 2n=16.

Distribution

The plant is found in scattered locations on the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, in southern Albania, North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia, Bulgaria, in eastern Romania, northern Moldova, in Ukraine, western and central Turkey, in Cyprus, West Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco. It was reported as present in the Caucasus by the 1939 Flora of USSR, but this is not mentioned in the other sources cited here.