What is the common name for the plant Iberis?
Iberis umbellata Iberis umbellata Iberis umbellata, common name garden candytuft or globe candytuft, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant of the genus "Iberis" and the family Brassicaceae. The genus name derives from "Iberia", the ancient name of Spain, while the species epithet comes from the Latin "umbel", meaning "umbrella" and refers to the shape of the inflorescence. The biological form of "Iberis umbellata" is "hemicryptophyte" "scapose", as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect with a few leaves. The stem is twisted at the base while the flowering branches are
Common name Linnaeus himself published a Flora of his homeland Sweden, Flora Svecica (1745), and in this, he recorded the Swedish common names, region by region, as well as the scientific names. The Swedish common names were all binomials (e.g. plant no. 84 Råg-losta and plant no. 85 Ren-losta); the vernacular binomial system thus preceded his scientific binomial system. Linnaean authority William T. Stearn said: The geographic range over which a particularly common name is used varies; some common names have a very local application, while others are virtually universal within a particular language. Some such names even apply across ranges of