diff --git a/lib/ControlSystemsBase/src/types/StateSpace.jl b/lib/ControlSystemsBase/src/types/StateSpace.jl
index ee3c89a5f..2cd66eb09 100644
--- a/lib/ControlSystemsBase/src/types/StateSpace.jl
+++ b/lib/ControlSystemsBase/src/types/StateSpace.jl
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ HeteroStateSpace(sys::LTISystem) = convert(HeteroStateSpace, sys)
 """
     A, B, C, D = ssdata(sys)
 
-A destructor that outputs the statespace matrices.
+Outputs the statespace matrices of sys. The matrices are not copies: no new memory is allocated, but modifying the matrices in-place will change the behavior of sys.
 """
 ssdata(sys) = sys.A, sys.B, sys.C, sys.D