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Pronunciation: lobe-yoo-LARE-ee-a mar-IT-i-ma
Common name: Sweet alyssum
Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard)
Habitat: Often cultivated and frequently found as a garden escape and naturalized in waste places and along trails and roadsides at low elevations, also along stream banks and beaches, native to Europe
Blooming period: Most of the year
Name derivations: 1) Lobularia 2) maritima