Another spelling variant of aubretia, the small spreading plant with colorful blooms popular in alpine and rock gardens.
A third variant spelling of the plant genus named after Claude Aubriet. This version reflects different transliteration choices when converting the French name to the Latinized botanical term.
Botanists have given us three different spellings—aubretia, aubrieta, and aubrietia—for the same flower, which is hilarious because they all mean 'that purple groundcover' to gardeners!
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