Alyssum grows and seeds throughout the year. Some plants are a few inches tall, while others reach nearly 3 feet. CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. – More than 20 years ago, it was touted as a miracle plant – a ...

Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima) is a flowering plant that can help add depth to your garden, but it's the benefit it offers to cucumber plants that makes it a popular choice for some gardeners. As ...

A: One of my favorite flowers for planting in the fall and winter is Sweet Alyssum. It is known as Lobularia maritima to scientists and horticulturists and is classified in the same plant family as ...

Sweet alyssum is easy to grow, and gardeners love the mass of tiny, fragrant blossoms it produces, but the flower is also a botanical magnet for the Bagrada bug. This invasive stink bug is now ...

It’s quite a contrast then, to know that the name alyssum actually comes from the Greek word “lyssa” meaning “rage” or “madness” and the “a” meaning “against” giving it its meaning today, “without ...

A common garden plant may hold the key to protecting brassica crops from the wheat bug, Nysius huttoni, a damaging pest. In a paper just published in the journal Agricultural and Forest Entomology, ...

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. (AP) — More than 20 years ago, it was touted as a miracle plant — a "hyperaccumulator" able to pull heavy metals, such as nickel, out of the area's serpentine soil and store it in ...

$\bullet$ Elemental allelopathy suggests that nickel (Ni)-rich leaves shed by hyperaccumulators inhibit the germination and growth of nearby plant species. $\bullet$ Here, the germination of eight ...