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Arabis caucasica
Also called Garden Rockcress, Garden Arabis, Wall Rockcress
Gray rockcress is a low, evergreen perennial that forms mats of gray-green leaves and bears white flowers in early spring. It grows best in full sun with excellent drainage, making it a classic rock garden and edging plant.
Arabis caucasica is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae) known by the common names garden arabis, mountain rock cress or Caucasian rockcress.
It is hardy to zones 4-9 and is not frost tender. A popular ornamental garden plant for its early flowers, cultivars include the pink 'Compinkie'. Under its putative synonym A. alpina subsp. caucasica, the cultivars 'Flore Pleno' and 'Schneehaube' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
It is native to Crimea, Turkey, Iran, Caucasus and the Mediterranean. It grows in crevices of limestone rocks, streams and alpine meadows.
Alpine rockcress · Rose rockcress · Running rockcress · Rockcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arabis caucasica 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.
