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Sand Rock Cress

Arabidopsis arenosa

Also called Polar Rockcress, Sand Rockcress

Sand Rock Cress
Photo: Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Public domain
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Greenland, Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Arabidopsis arenosa, the sand rock-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is found mostly in Central Europe in both a diploid and an autotetraploid form. This sets it apart from the other, mostly diploid, Arabidopsis species including the closely related Arabidopsis lyrata or Arabidopsis thaliana, the model plant species.

Other Arabidopsis plants

Arctic Rockcress · Cevenne Rockcress · Arabidopsis halleri · Lyrate Rockcress · Arabidopsis suecica · Mouseear cress · Rockcress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arabidopsis arenosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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