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Rockcresses
Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis (rockcress) is a genus of small flowering plants in the cabbage and mustard family, Brassicaceae. Arabidopsis species are native to temperate and subarctic Eurasia and North America, North Africa, and the mountains of eastern tropical Africa. This genus is of great interest since it contains thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), one of the model organisms used for studying plant biology and the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced. Changes in thale cress are easily observed, making it a very useful model.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
mouse-ear cress
speciesArabidopsis thaliana
Lyreleaf Rockcress
speciesArabidopsis lyrata
Sand Rock-cress
speciesArabidopsis arenosa
Arabidopsis halleri
speciesArabidopsis halleri
Arabidopsis suecica
speciesArabidopsis suecica
Arctic rock-cress
speciesArabidopsis arenicola
Cevenne Rockcress
speciesArabidopsis cebennensis
Arabidopsis neglecta
speciesArabidopsis neglecta
Arabidopsis croatica
speciesArabidopsis croatica
Arabidopsis pedemontana
speciesArabidopsis pedemontana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Arabidopsis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48016.