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Eutrema salsugineum
Also called Mouse Ear Cress, Saltlick Mustard
Saltwater cress is a small annual or biennial mustard that tolerates salty, cold and dry conditions, and is a close relative of Arabidopsis used in plant stress research. It is mainly grown by researchers and enthusiasts rather than as a garden crop.
Eutrema salsugineum (syn. Thellungiella salsuginea), the saltwater cress or salt-lick mustard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. A petite annual or biennial, it is native to Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, northern and eastern China, northwestern and western Canada, Montana and Colorado in the United States, and Nuevo León in Mexico. An extremophile halophyte, it is a close relative of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and has been adopted to study salt, drought, and cold stress resistance in plants, including having its genome sequenced.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eutrema salsugineum 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.
