| Family | BRASSICACEAE |
| Genus species | Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea (L.) O´Kane & Al-Shehbaz |
| Synonyms | Cardamine petraea L. |
| Arabis ambigua DC. | |
| Arabis hispida L. | |
| Habitat | rocks |
| Description | leaves in rosette, lyrate or oblong-ovate, dentate or entire, long petiolate, flowers ca. 6mm across in small raceme |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | purple, white |
| Bloom | late spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Fřroyar , Great Britain , Iceland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Hungary ) Southeastern Europe (Italy ) Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Sakhalin ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Yukon) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | BRASSICACEAE
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