ARABIS AURICULATA

Family and Genus:- See- CRUCIFERAE

Common Names:- Annual rock-cress

Homotypic Synonyms:- Crucifera auriculata, Erysimum auriculatum.

Turrita auriculata, Turritis auriculata.

Meaning:- Arabis (L) Arabian.

Auriculata (L) Lobed ear-like, with lobes.

General description:- Often biennial.

Stems:-

1) 20-50 cm, unbranched or branched above; pubescent, the hairs 2- to 5-fid.

Leaves:-

1) Basal, petiolate, ovate or obovate, entire.

2) Cauline, 10-40 mm, sessile, auriculate, ovate to lance-shaped, acute.

Flowers:-

1) Flowers, 7-40.

2) Pedicels, up to 5 mm at anthesis.

3) Petals, 4-6 mm, white.

4) Infructescence, straight, flexuous.

5) Style, 0·5-1 mm.

Fruit:-

1) Siliqua, 25-70 x 1·5 mm, glabrous to puberulent, patent.

2) Seeds, 1·2-1·5 mm, narrowly winged.

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Habitat:- Rocky slopes and ridges, stony pastures in openings of coniferous forest,

screes, on various substrates. (400-)1000-2300 m.

Distribution:- Pyrenees, Alps, Jura and Balkan peninsula. On Crete occurs in the

three main massiffs, but not common.

Flowering time:- Late Apr to June.

Photos by:- Fotis Samaritakis

Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:
Canary Is., Madeira