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Aethionema grandiflorum, commonly known as Persian stonecress or Persian candytuft, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae,[2] preferring to grow at 750 to 2600 m on limestone slopes. It is sometimes kept as a garden plant, and occasionally naturalizes outside its original range of eastern Turkey, the southern Caucasus and northern Iran. It is a recipient of the RHS's Award of Garden Merit.[3]

Aethionema grandiflorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Aethionema
Species:
A. grandiflorum
Binomial name
Aethionema grandiflorum
Boiss. & Hohen.[1]
Synonyms
  • Aethionema coridifolium Boiss.
  • Aethionema levandowskyi Busch
  • Aethionema pallidiflorum Hausskn. & Bornm. ex Bornm.
  • Aethionema pulchellum Boiss. & A. Huet
  • Aethionema grandiflora
  • Aethionema sintenisii Hausskn. & Bornm.
  • Aethionema grandiflorum var. sintenisii (Hausskn. & Bornm.) Govaerts

Description


Aethionema grandiflorum is a many-stemmed, short-lived perennial, typically forming 15 to 30 cm (at most 40 cm) tall spreading mounds. Its foliage is evergreen, and it has up to 15 pink to lilac cruciform flowers borne on terminal racemes.[4] It prefers alkaline soils.

Foliage
Foliage

References


  1. P. E. Boissier, Diagn. pl. orient. ser. 1, 8:42. 1849
  2. "Aethionema grandiflorum Boiss. & Hohen". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  3. " Aethionema grandiflorum Persian stone cress". RHS. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. Moazzeni, Hamid; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; German, Dmitry A.; Assadi, Mostafa; Müller, Jochen; Joharchi, Mohammad Reza; Memariani, Farshid (18 June 2018). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Aethionema s.l. (Brassicaceae) in Iran". Phytotaxa. 356 (4): 241–266. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.356.4.1.


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