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Arabis blepharophylla
Also called Coast Rockcress
Rose rockcress is a low perennial from coastal California, forming a rosette of fuzzy leaves with small pinkish-purple flowers. It needs sharp drainage and sun, and does best where summers are cool and dry.
Arabis blepharophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, known by the common names coast rock cress and rose rock cress. It is endemic to California, growing mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area and nearby low-elevation California Coast Ranges.
This herbaceous perennial that sends up thin, hairy stems from a basal rosette of fuzzy leaves. It bears small flowers with four bright purplish-pink petals.
Alpine rockcress · Gray Rockcress · Running rockcress · Rockcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arabis blepharophylla 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.
