Flax-leaf Alyssum: Leaf

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:

Leaf

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.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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