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ARABIS ROCKCRESS
Annual, biennial, perennial herb; base not woody; hairs simple, forked, or stellate; caudex branched or not.
Stem: branched or not, leafy.
Leaf: basal rosetted, petioled, entire or dentate; cauline sessile, entire or dentate, base lobed or not.
Flower: sepals erect or ascending, base of lateral pair sac-like or not; petals spoon-shaped to oblong, oblanceolate, or obovate, white to pink or deep purple.
Fruit: silique, erect to spreading, linear, dehiscent, unsegmented, straight, flat parallel to septum, glabrous.
Seed: 12–110, 1 row per chamber, flat, winged or margined.
< 70 species: temperate North America, Eurasia, n Africa. (Latin: of Arabia) Most species of Arabis in TJM (1993) moved to Boechera; Arabis glabra to Turritis. CA record of Arabis aculeolata Greene not confirmed.

Key to Arabis

1. Cauline leaf bases lobed or sagittate

2. Petals (5.5)6.5–9(10) mm; bases of lateral sepal pair sac-like; fruit 1.2–2 mm wide; cauline leaves (2)4–12(18), generally well-spaced ..... A. eschscholtziana

2' Petals 3.5–5(5.5) mm; sepal base not sac-like; fruit 0.8–1(1.2) mm wide; cauline leaves (7)10–45(61), generally overlapping ..... A. pycnocarpa var. pycnocarpa

1' Cauline leaf bases tapered, not lobed or sagittate

3. Hairs of basal leaves stellate, 3- or 4-rayed ..... A. modesta

3' Hairs of basal leaves simple to 2(4)-rayed or 0

4. Seeds ± round, 2–2.5 mm; fruit 2–3 mm wide ..... A. blepharophylla

4' Seeds oblong, 1–1.3 mm wide; fruit 1.5–2 mm wide

5. Plant glabrous or with a few simple hairs at teeth tips of basal leaves; fruit 2–4 cm ..... A. mcdonaldiana

5' Plant moderately to densely hairy, hairs simple, forked; fruit (3)4.5–5 cm ..... A. oregana

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