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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.ARABIS
ROCK CRESS
Biennial, perennial herb; base woody or not; hairs 0 to dense, simple, forked, stellate, or multibranched; caudex branched or not
Stem branched or not, cylindric, leafy
Leaves: basal petioled, entire or dentate; cauline generally sessile, entire or dentate, base often lobed, often clasping stem
Inflorescence: bracts 0
Flower erect to reflexed; sepals erect; petals spoon-shaped to oblong and narrowed at base or narrowly obovate, white to deep purple, rarely straw-colored
Fruit erect to reflexed, linear, straight to curved, flat parallel to septum, rarely ± cylindric
Seeds ± many, generally 1 row per chamber, flat or plump, winged or not; embryonic root at edges of both cotyledons
Species in genus: ± 120 species: temp North America, Eurasia, Africa
Etymology: (Latin: of Arabia)
Native A. glaucovalvula M.E. Jones
Perennial; caudex branched; hairs minute, multibranched
Stems 1several, simple or branched above, 1.54 dm, densely canescent
Leaves: basal 25 cm, linear to ± wider, entire, tip obtuse to ± acute, hairs dense; cauline 14 cm, sessile, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, tapered below, gray
Flower: petals white to pinkish
Fruit reflexed, 24.5 cm, 58 mm wide, oblong, glabrous, glaucous; base, tip obtuse; pedicel stout, recurved; hairs dense; style < 1 mm
Seeds: 2 rows per chamber, round; wing very wide
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Rocky, limestone soils, open sites, summits, hill slopes, desert scrub
Elevation: 10001300 m.
Bioregional distribution: e East of Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: Nevada
Flowering time: MarMay
Horticultural information: TRY.
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