OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7 (2010)

Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Transfer of most North American species of Arabis to Boechera (Al-Shehbaz, 2003)

Boechera patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-003:

Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Arabis patens

 

COMMON NAME:
Spreading Rockcress


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image of Arabis patens, Spreading Rockcress

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_arpa2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7
Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Transfer of most North American species of Arabis to Boechera (Al-Shehbaz, 2003)
Boechera patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Arabis patens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-003:
Arabis patens   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arabis patens

 

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114

Forb
Biennial/Rarely perennial

Habitat: Thin soils around calcareous or dolomitic outcrops, very rarely in nutrient-rich seepage from mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare and irregularly distributed

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Silique

 

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