Noccaea

Noccaea - Pretty rock plants, with evergreen foliage and flowers like a little Candytuft. The most familiar is N. stylosa, perhaps better known as an Iberis, which makes tiny dark green cushions barely 2 inches high, covered early in the year with clusters of rosy-purple flowers smelling smelling like heliotrope. It will root into the narrowest of chinks upon walls or stonework, braving the full sun, and spreading into neat tufts in the rock garden in dry, gritty soil. In seaside gardens it often comes into flower with the new year, and is seldom later than the first week of March anywhere, blooming thenceforward into early summer. Though short-lived, self-sown seedlings maintain themselves as pretty patches, coming year after year on old walls or any rocky surface. A variety known as speciosa has larger and deeper colored flowers. Syn. Iberis stylosa. N. alpina, better known as Hutchinsia, is also attractive, with its glossy green leaves and white flowers.

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