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Lutzia cretica is a small spherical, greyish-white woolly subshrub from the cabbage family, the only species in its genus, found in limestone cliff crevices on Greek Aegean islands. It is rarely grown outside its native range and is best kept as a dry, sun-loving rock garden or alpine-style plant.
Lutzia cretica is a species of herbaceous plant endemic to the Aegean Islands of Greece. It is the only species in the genus Lutzia, which belongs to the cabbage family Brassicaceae.
Prior to a 2015 reappraisal based on molecular phylogenetic data, the plant was most commonly included in the genus Alyssoides as Alyssoides cretica.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lutzia cretica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
