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Iberis amara (annual candytuft; rocket candytuft)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Iberis amara var. amara
Iberis amara var. arvatica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  The flowers are sweetly scented.
Structure [4]  Herb
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
View Plants For A Future Record : Iberis amara

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Acadia National Park II 35996 Maine, United States
Massifs forestiers famenniens entre Hotton et Barvaux-sur-Ourthe (Durbuy; Erezée; Hotton) 4337 Belgium  

Predators

Ceutorhynchus atomus[5]
Ceutorhynchus contractus[5]
Pieris brassicae (Large White)[5]
Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Garden Carpet Moth)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe cruciferarum[6]
Hyaloperonospora parasitica[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0