Flax-leaf Alyssum Flower - Profile | Flax-leaf Alyssum Fruit Stem | |||||
Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||
Order: | Mustards & Allies (Brassicales) | ||||
Family: | Mustard (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Flax-leaf Alyssum (Alyssum linifolium) | ||||
This Photo: | Fruit | ||||
Synonyms: | Alyssum linifolia or Meniocus linifolius | ||||
Thank you Renate and Glenys for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A very strange plant with brown, circular, flat, disk fruits. These discs dry to a paper thin shell, then drop the two seeds contained within. Also has strange tufted short hairs growing from it's leaves & stem. | |||||
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