Common name:
Bristol rockcress
Family:
Scientific name:
Arabis scabra
Synonym:
Arabis stricta
Main flower color:
Range:
Only found in the Avon Gorge, Bristol
Height:
Up to 25 cm
Habitat:
Limestone outcrops
Flowers:
White to creamy yellow, with four petals, often not fully opening, six stamens and a disc-shaped stigma. Four oblong, hairless sepals. Flowers form as small clusters, of three to seven
Fruit:
Narrow, two-valved capsules, flattened in cross-section
Leaves:
Oblanceolate to lanceolate, lined by irregular, wavy lobes, and covered with prominent, branched hairs. Mostly basal, in a flat rosette; also a few clasping stem leaves. Green to purple in colour. Stems (usually one per plant, sometimes two) are hairy below, hairless above
Season:
March to May
Rarity:
★★★★★
