tower mustard

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Related to tower mustard: Turritis glabra, wormseed mustard, Arabis glabra

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Noun	1.	tower mustard - or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe Arabis glabra, tower cress, Turritis glabra cress, cress plant - any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste genus Turritis, Turritis - closely related to and often included in genus Arabis
	2.	tower mustard - European cress having stiff erect stems; sometimes placed in genus Turritis Arabis turrita, tower cress Arabis, genus Arabis - annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress rock cress, rockcress - any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis

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Plants: tower mustard, cornflower, cut-grass, floating water plantain.

FARM & COUNTRY: Winners and losers

It may be the fact that tower mustard, a nationally threatened plant, has been found there, or it could also be that this is one of the last remaining patches of heathland in the county.

RURAL LIVING: A battle cry to protect our precious heathland; Work is being carried out to save one of the UK's most important habitats in Worcestershire

Tower Mustard, or Arabis Glabra, is a member of the cabbage family that grows in the bare sandy soil found in the region but it is quickly being overtaken by tall, thick grasses.