rockcress


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Noun1.rockcress - noxious cress with yellow flowersrockcress - noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium
Barbarea, genus Barbarea - biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress
weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
2.rockcress - any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabisrockcress - any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis
cress, cress plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
Arabis, genus Arabis - annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress
Arabis Canadensis, sicklepod - North American rock cress having very long curved pods
Arabis turrita, tower cress, tower mustard - European cress having stiff erect stems; sometimes placed in genus Turritis
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Dubbed a moon surface micro-ecological circle, the 18-centimeter high aluminum alloy cylinder contains silkworm eggs and seeds for potatoes and rockcress (Arabidopsis thaliana, a flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage).
Day Eric L, 3632 Rockcress Rd; new single family dwelling with attached garage.
Hopkins) Rollins; Hairy rockcress, cream-flower rockcress; Upland woods; Rare but locally common; C = 5; BSUH 17804.
Some Cruciferae ornamentals include Arabis (rockcress), Cherianthus (Erysimum or wallflower), Iberis (candytuft), Lunaria (honesty), and Matthiola (stock).
Arabis laevigata (smooth rockcress) is a facultative biennial that grows in woodlands (Bloom et al., 1990, 2001).
Species with <2% cover included, in order of dominance, spike trisetum (Trisetum spicatum), granite mousetail (Ivesia muirii), alpine willow (Salix arctica), frosted buckwheat (Eriogonum incanum), Sierra beardtongue (Penstemon heterodoxus), heath wood rush (Luzula orestera), pussypaws (Calyptridium umbellatum), rockcress (Arabis platysperma), glaucus willowherb (Epilobium glabenimum), and little elephant heads (Pedicularis attolens).
Local adaptation across a climatic gradient despite small effective population size in the rare sapphire rockcress. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 268: 1715-1721.
To keep basket-of-gold, candytuft, common aubretia, moss pink, rockcress, and other low-growing, spring-blooming perennials full and compact, remove spent blooms and an inch or two of growth.
Available in white, pink, yellow, maroon, purple, violet and blue they are the perfect partner to harmonize with or add contrast to the spring ground cover of dwarf or creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) and rockcress (Arabis) (photo p.
It had been feeding on an introduced fiddle-neck plant, raised on the diet of an introduced rockcress. He'd come here having heard the news that John Fleckenstein had rediscovered the extinct species in 1998 doing a survey of the San Juan Island National Historic Park.
* Santa Cruz Island rockcress (Sibara filifolia)--an annual herb in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).
In the Chang'e-4 is a small "tin" that contains seeds of potatoes and rockcress (Arabidopsis thaliana, a flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage).