Our Best Barbecue Side Dishes
From potato salad to hush puppies, prepare these delicious dishes. 
Mostly native to Mediterranean region. Mounding plants or shrublets that brighten spring borders and rock gardens with their cheerful bloom. They thrive in poor, rocky soil as long as it is well drained.
alyssum montanum
- To 8 inches high, 1 feet wide with leaves that are gray and dense; short clusters of fragrant yellow flowers.
- The compact and heavy-flowering 'Berggold' ('Mountain Gold') is the most commonly sold variety.
- Luna blooms 2 weeks earlier.
alyssum saxatile
- See Aurinia saxatilis
alyssum wulfenianum
- Prostrate and trailing to about 1 feet wide, with fleshy, silvery leaves and sheets of pale yellow flowers.
