Scientific Name: Arabis caucasica (incl. hybrid cvs.)
Common Name: rock cress, pink wall cress
Family Name: Brassicaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Ground cover, Perennial border, Rock garden
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Branching hairs, Obovate, Spatulate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Raceme, White, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Dark-red, Apr-May
Fruit: Silique, Brown, Jun
Key ID Features:
Small, mounding perennial; leaves mid-green, obovate-spatulate, 3-9cm long x 1-3cm wide, margins sparsely toothed; flowers with 4 white petals (pink, magenta, red, purple cvs.)