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Wall-cress - Arabidopsis thaliana
Other Names:
Mouse-ear Cress, Thale Cress
General Description
Annual. Stems simple or branched, 10–30 cm. Vestiture: simple on the stems; simple and branched on the leaves. Basal leaves petiolate, oblong to spatulate, 5–25 mm long; margins entire to remotely dentate. Stem leaves narrowly oblong to linear. Flowers white; petals 2–3 mm long. Fruit 8–15 × 0.5–1 mm (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Range Comments
Introduced to most of temperate North America; native to Eurasia (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 20
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Habitat
Sparsely vegetated soil of grasslands, sagebrush steppe, open forest, roadsides; valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Management
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
View Online Publication- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Adhikari, S. 2018. Impacts of dryland farming systems on biodiversity, plant-insect interactions, and ecosystem services. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 207 p.
Culver, D.R. 1994. Floristic analysis of the Centennial Region, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman. 199 pp.- Davidson, R.M. 1997. Temporal and spatial dynamics of herbicide resistant weeds. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 137 p.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
- Liu, P. 2011. Functional studies of type II heterodimeric phytochromes and end-modified type I phyas in Arabidopsis. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 125 p.
- Mathews, S.L. 1995. Evolution of the phytochrome gene family in land plants and its utility for phylogenetic analyses of flowering plants. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 85 p.
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