OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Borodinia canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-005:

Arabis canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Canada Rockcress, Sicklepod

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Borodinia canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arabis canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-25-005:
 Arabis canadensis   FAMILY Brassicaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2668

Forb
Biennial

Habitat: Thin soils around rock outcrops, especially mafic or calcareous, and in dry to mesic, nutrient-rich, often rocky woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal rosette usually absent or withered at flowering)
Upper stem leaves sessile, middle auriculate-clasping, lower sessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Creamy white/Pinkish
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual

Inflorescence a raceme of 15-65(82) flowers, sometimes branched (thus a panicle?

FRUIT:
Summer
Silique

 

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