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Arabis
Also called Rock Cress, Rock Cresses
Arabis, or rockcress, is a genus of small herbaceous annual and perennial plants, many of them dense, hairy and grown in rock gardens. Good drainage and full sun on lean soil are the key to growing the commonly cultivated members such as Arabis alpina.
Arabis , or rockcress, is a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae.
Some species, notably Arabis alpina, are cultivated as ornamental plants in gardens. Many others are regarded as weeds.
Alpine rockcress · Rose rockcress · Gray Rockcress · Running rockcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arabis 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.
