GARDEN ARABIS

GARDEN ROCK-CRESS

Arabis Caucasica

Cabbage Family [Brassicaceae]

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3rd May 2006, Monyash, Derbyshire. Photo: © RWD
Standing with bushy-form over a foot tall. Leaves a hoary grey-green.


3rd May 2006, Monyash, Derbyshire. Photo: © RWD
Leaves a hoary grey, upper clasping the stems with two back-wardsly-pointing auricles. Coracle and bluntly toothed.


3rd May 2006, Monyash, Derbyshire. Photo: © RWD
Flowers a very clean and brilliant white with four petals.


3rd May 2006, Monyash, Derbyshire. Photo: © RWD
Flowers have a central golden yellow egg-yolk splash of colour. Stamens and anthers also yellow.


3rd May 2006, Monyash, Derbyshire. Photo: © RWD
with a splash of yellow at the center.


Some similarities to : Alpine Rock-Cress but that seems to have disappeared from the wild in the UK over a decade ago.

Grows in gardens and on rocks. Planted especially in rockeries.

Flowers are a clean and brilliant white with a golden egg-yolk yellow central splash of colour. Petals number four, as with all Brassica Family plants.

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Arabis

GARDEN ARABIS

GARDEN ROCK-CRESS

Arabis Caucasica

Cabbage Family [Brassicaceae]