Pink and Purple Crucifers

Mustard Family - Brassicaceae

Burnt Candytuft Aethionema saxatile

Native throughout most of the Mediterranean Region and northward into Central Europe. A plant of dry, stony slopes.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Flowers	Leaves	Leaves	Seed capsules

Hoary Stock Matthiola incana

Native to the Mediterranean coasts of Europe, but also widely grown elsewhere as a garden plant. A perennial subshrub of coastal cliffs and rocks.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Leaves	Seed capsule tip

Sea Stock Matthiola sinuata

Native in the Mediterranean Region and Atlantic coasts of Europe. A perennial or biennial with seed capsules compressed, glandular. Flowers with distinct stalks.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Leaves	Leaves

Three-horned Stock Matthiola tricuspidata

Native in the Mediterranean Region. An annual without vegetative leaf rosettes; flowers more or less stalkless, seed capsules bearing three distinct points at the tip.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Seed capsule tip

Sea Rocket Cakile maritima

Native on sandy and shingle beaches throughout Europe, North Africa and western Asia.


Habit	Flowers	Leaf	Seed capsule

Wavy Stock Malcolmia flexuosa

Native in the southern Balkans and through western Turkey to Syria. A coastal plant with slightly fleshy leaves, hairs medifixed and fruiting pedicels thickened to the same width as the seed capsule.