Aubrietia
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Aubrietia (Claude Aubriet, French natural history painter of last century). Cruciferae. Purple Rock-cress. Showy perennial more or less evergreen trailers, excellent for rockwork or edgings. Allied to Alyssum and Vesicaria: distinguished chiefly by the outer sepals being saccate at base, the shorter filaments toothed, and the valves of the oblong or globose silique convex and not ribbed: Lvs. entire or angular-toothed: fls. in shades of violet or purple, in few-fld. bractless racemes: plant canescent or tomentose.—About a half - dozen species, Italy to Persia. The aubrietias are of simple cult. Prop. by seeds, layers or cuttings. They make excellent mats of foliage and bloom.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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