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§1 Plant

Arabis glabra (L.) Bernh.

vernacular tower rockcress — species · Brassicaceae


USDA
ARGL
GBIF
5376000 syn.
Rank
species
tower rockcress (Arabis glabra)
Platephotograph · Joanne MuisCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Brassicaceae Burnett
Genus
Arabis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 170 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 170 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 170 counties across 13 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 4 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N
Maine view state ↗ 5 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N
Montana view state ↗ 28 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 34 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 39 N
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 16 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ARGL ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5376000 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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