Alyssum minutum

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Alyssum minutum

Alyssum minutum is a small annual flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It grows to about 5–10 centimeters tall and likes gravelly soil, rocky slopes, and dry grasslands. It flowers from March to early summer and has 2n = 16 chromosomes.

It is native to the Mediterranean and parts of Eastern Europe and is found in scattered locations across many regions, including:
- Iberian Peninsula: in the Baetic Mountains at elevations of 1,000–2,000 meters, and in central and northwestern areas
- Italy: Sardinia, Sicily, Calabria
- Greece: mainland, Crete, Lesbos and other large islands, usually at 500–1,900 meters (rarely at sea level or up to 2,200 meters)
- Southern Albania, North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia, Bulgaria (Upper Thracian Plain and northeast)
- Eastern Romania and northern Moldova
- Ukraine (Black Sea Lowland and Crimea)
- Western and central Turkey
- Cyprus, western Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco

There have been reports of it in the Caucasus, but these are not confirmed by other sources.