alyssum

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Keep the flowers well picked all summer and you will have numberless blooms Sweet alyssum is a charming border plant.

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  1. noun See sweet alyssum.
  2. noun Any of various chiefly Mediterranean weeds or ornamentals of the genus Alyssum in the mustard family, having racemes of white or yellow flowers. Also called madwort.
  3. noun See hoary alyssum.

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  • Some reliable annual flowers are alyssum, cosmos, marigolds, and zinnias.
  • Some seeds, such as ageratum, alyssum, impatiens, petunias, and snapdragons, should not be covered at all because they need light in order to germinate.
  • Josie's eyes flitted over the lacy white alyssum, past the potted strawberry plant toward the haven of her darkened apartment. —  Camy's Loft
  • My attention wandered to the endless gardens of summer marigolds, alyssum and manicured hedges. —  Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
  • There are flats of begonias, alyssum, impatiens, marigolds, petunias, and dahlias. —  Garden City News
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  1. New Latin Alyssum, genus name, from Latin alysson, kind of madder, from Greek alusson, a plant believed to cure rabies : a-, not; see a-1 + lussa, rabies; see wl̥kwo- in Indo-European roots.
 

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