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Arabidopsis halleri

Arabidopsis halleri
Photo: Anton Hartinger, Public domain

Arabidopsis halleri is a small perennial wildflower in the cabbage family, native to parts of Europe and East Asia, known for its ability to tolerate and accumulate metals like zinc in its tissues. It is grown mainly in research and botanical collections rather than as a garden ornamental, and it prefers cool, moist, open ground.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile soil; tolerates poor and metal-rich soils in the wild.
Temperature
5–25 °C; hardy to cold winters in its native range.
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Toxic
Native range
C. Europe to Ukraine, E. Siberia to Temp. E. Asia
Climate
temperate

About

Arabidopsis halleri is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial native to Central Europe from Germany and Italy to Ukraine, and to Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Russian Far East.

Other Arabidopsis plants

Arctic Rockcress · Sand Rock Cress · Cevenne Rockcress · Lyrate Rockcress · Arabidopsis suecica · Mouseear cress · Rockcress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arabidopsis halleri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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