About Alyssum minutum Schlecht. ex DC.
Alyssum minutum Schlecht. ex DC. is a species of flowering plant in the Alyssum genus, belonging to the Brassicaceae family. It is native to the Mediterranean region and Eastern Europe. This is an annual herbaceous plant that typically grows 5 to 10 cm tall. It grows in gravelly soil, rocky slopes, and dry grassland, and flowers from March through to early summer. The chromosome number of this species is 2n=16. This species is found across scattered locations across its native range. On the Iberian Peninsula, it occurs between 1,000–2,000 m elevation in the Baetic System, and in central and northwestern areas of the peninsula. In Italy, it is found in Sardinia, Sicily, and Calabria. In Greece, it grows throughout the mainland, on Crete, Lesbos, and other larger Greek islands, occurring at 500–1,900 m elevation, rarely reaching as low as sea level or as high as 2,200 m. Additional locations where it is found include southern Albania, North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia, Bulgaria (the Upper Thracian Plain and northeastern Bulgaria), eastern Romania, northern Moldova, Ukraine (notably the Black Sea Lowland and Crimea), western and central Turkey, Cyprus, West Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco. The 1939 Flora of USSR reported the species from the Caucasus, but this occurrence is not mentioned in any other cited sources for this description.
