Brassicaceae
Alpine rockcress
Arabis alpina
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Arabis
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Common names
By language (9)
- Chinese
- 筷子芥, 高山南芥
- Czech
- Huseník alpský
- Dutch
- Alpenscheefkelk
- English
- Alpine rockcress, Asomskskw
- German
- Alpenkresse, Gartengries, Immerfrehli
- Igbo
- Asomskskw
- Russian
- Арабис альпийский
- Slovenian
- Alpski repnjak
- Welsh
- Berwr-y-cerrig y mynydd
Synonyms
- Arabidium alpestre Spach
- Arabidium alpinum (L.) Fourr.
- Arabidium saxaticola Fourr.
- Arabis albida var. elata Sprague
- Arabis alpina f. alpina
- Arabis alpina f. impudica Greuter & J.Zaffran
- Arabis alpina f. phyllopetala Fernald
- Arabis alpina subsp. merinoi (Pau) Silva Pando, Rodr.Gracia & Valdés Berm.
- Arabis alpina var. alpina
- Arabis alpina var. clusiana (Schrank) DC.
- Arabis alpina var. commutata Pau & Font Quer
- Arabis alpina var. glabrata A.Blytt
- Arabis alpina var. minor Lange
- Arabis caucasica var. leiopoda Pau
- Arabis clusiana Schrank
- Arabis cuneifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich.
- Arabis cuneifolia f. kiboensis O.E.Schulz
- Arabis cuneifolia f. meruensis O.E.Schulz
- Arabis grandiflora Royle ex Hook.f. & Thomson
- Arabis hirsuta Royle ex Hook.f. & Thomson
- Arabis incana Moench
- Arabis janitrix Quézel
- Arabis leptocarpaea Fisch. ex Rchb.
- Arabis lerchenfeldiana Schur
- Arabis linneana Wettst.
- Arabis minor Hort.Berol. ex DC.
- Arabis moschata hort. ex Rchb.
- Arabis nana Simonk.
- Arabis obtusifolia Schur
- Arabis sicula A.Huet ex Reut.
- Arabis undulata Link
- Crucifera arabis E.H.L.Krause
- Erysimum wettsteinianum Kuntze
- Turrita alpestris Bubani
Flowers
- In flower
- March to August (from 467 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Canada: introduced, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: avocat, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: avocat, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ingvild Riska, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Felix Seebauer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: User:Tigerente, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: sjajuga, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Mirko Ubović, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.