Iberis Flower Definition. This species is found in local discrete populations limited to fairly small areas of suitable habitat which is invariably made of calcareous outcrops with Mediterranean scrubland where the food plants crucifers of the genus Iberis are found. Includes mustards cabbages broccoli turnips cresses and their many relatives.
A genus of Old World mostly glabrous plants family Cruciferae having entire or pinnatifid sometimes fleshy leaves and flowers with two long and two short petals succeeded by a broad ovate pod the herbaceous members being often cultivated for their flat-topped clusters of white or purplish flowers see candytuft. Umbellata are the garden candytuft Family. Sempervirens is a spreading evergreen sub-shrub to 30cm in height with narrow dark green leaves.
Morphologically it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed.
Is a member of. Best planted in early fall it is a slow grower that will brighten gardens for many years. It comprises annuals evergreen perennials and subshrubs native to the Old World. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis as well as variations in the proportions compressions swellings adnations connations and reduction of main and secondary axes.