''Alyssoides'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing a single species, ''Alyssoides utriculata''. A herbaceous perennial plant native to Southern Europe and Turkey, it grows on dry rocky slopes and on calcareous rocks, reaching heights of 20 to 50cm and blooming with yellow flowers between April and May–July. 'A. graeca'' and ''A. bulgarica''./ref> The genus formerly contained a second species, ''Alyssoides cretica'', but after molecular phylogenetic studies from 2008 and 2013 it was reassigned to the genus '' Lutzia''. There are two subspecies: the ''A. utricalata'' subsp. ''utriculata'', and ''A. utriculata'' subsp. ''bulgarica'', which characteristically differ by the pattern and shape of their hairs. ''Alyssoides utriculata'' is used as an ornamental plant and in gardening may be referred to as ''inflated bladderseed'' or as (Greek) bladderpod See also entries a
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Distribution

The plant's distribution ranges from southern France to Turkey. It is found in the Massif Central of France, the Western Alps, the

Apennines The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (; grc-gre, links=no, Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; la, Appenninus or – a singular with plural meaning;''Apenninus'' (Greek or ) has the form of an adjective, which wou ...

of Italy, the Dinaric Alps of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania; in western Kosovo, in Serbia (the Tara and Rtanj mountains among others), hese are the only two mentioned here, but a somewhat wider area is given in the '. in the south of North Macedonia, in Greece (from low elevations up to 2200(-2500)m; relatively common in the north-east, in more isolated locations in the north (Vourinos, Vermion, Mount Olympus, Olympus, and a few localities in Pindus) and the central areas (Pentelikon, Parnis, Parnassus and Mount Giona, Giona)), in Bulgaria (at elevations of 50–1900m in

Stara Planina The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...

, the Rhodopes,

Strandzha Strandzha ( bg, Странджа, also transliterated as ''Strandja'', ; tr, Istranca , or ) is a mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey. It is in the southeastern part of the Balkans between the plains of T ...

and the southwest), southwestern Romania, and northern Anatolia.

Gallery

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* {{Taxonbar, from1=Q309766, from2=Q3613492 Brassicaceae Monotypic Brassicaceae genera