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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Borodinia canadensis
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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Learn more about Canada Rockcress from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis canadensis
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Borodinia canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7 (2010)
Boechera canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Transfer of most North American species of Arabis to Boechera (Al-Shehbaz, 2003)
Boechera canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-005:
Arabis canadensis FAMILY Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arabis canadensis
COMMON NAME:
Canada Rockcress, Sicklepod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_arca_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4151
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4153
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Stems essentially glabrous, hirsute toward the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm200425_4156
April Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0421
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0424
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0433
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Its cauline leaves only slightly toothed and usually not clasping, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0434
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Pedicels of flowers or fruits deflexed, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm230509_3190
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230509_3192
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Median leaves prominently auriculate-clasping, lower and upper only slightly or not auriculate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm230509_3197
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Basal leaves usually absent at flowering, oblanceolate, pinnately dissected or lobed, hirsute, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm230509_3199
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210619_1433
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210619_1437
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_arabis_canadensis_2b
June
Sepals form a round cup at flower base. Petals spreading & about 1.5x longer, per www.minnesotawildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm231109_6764
November Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Silique 2-3mm broad, 4-7cm long, conspicuously arcuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Borodinia canadensis
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis canadensis
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Borodinia canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7
Boechera canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Transfer of most North American species of Arabis to Boechera (Al-Shehbaz, 2003)
Boechera canadensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-005:
Arabis canadensis
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arabis canadensis
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Forb
Biennial
Habitat: Thin soils around rock outcrops, especially mafic or calcareous, and in dry to mesic, nutrient-rich, often rocky woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal rosette usually absent or withered at flowering)
Upper stem leaves sessile, middle auriculate-clasping, lower sessile
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Creamy white/Pinkish
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual
Inflorescence a raceme of 15-65(82) flowers, sometimes branched (thus a panicle?
FRUIT:
Summer
Silique
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p047
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p101
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p134
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p084
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p109
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p059
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