Genus Alyssum (Noun)
Meaning
A genus of the family Cruciferae.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Alyssum, also known as the genus Alyssum, consists of more than 100 species of annual and perennial herbs.
- The plants in the genus Alyssum have flowers in dense, cylindrical clusters at the top of their stems.
- One common species from the genus Alyssum, gold-dust, can tolerate various soils, except clay and alkaline types.
- Biennials, tender perennials and some evergreen annuals populate the Alyssum genus in Europe.
- When dividing genera like Genus Alyssum among researchers, traditional distinctions made before evolution evidence influence historical agreements over major rankings, whether 65 small sections now yield exactly fifteen reidentified overall class-ordered sorts; evolution advances exact study which clarifies as accurate categories the four section modern knowledge groups.