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Arabis caucasica

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Wikipedia Abstract

Arabis caucasica is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae) known by the common names garden arabis, mountain rock cress or Caucasian rockcress. It is native to south eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  A good ground cover plant for sunny positions;
Height [2]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Anthocharis cardamines (Orange Tip Butterfly)[4]
Camptogramma bilineata (yellow shell)[4]
Dasineura alpestris[4]
Lipamyzodes matthiolae[4]
Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Garden Carpet Moth)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe cruciferarum[5]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0