
Botanical illustration of Jacob Sturm from the book
Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen , 1796: 1.
Alpine cod (
Arabis alpina ),
2.
Rough cough (
Arabis hirsuta )
The leaves are whole, the flowers are usually painted white, pink or purple. The fruit is a pod [2] .
It occurs in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere and in the mountains of tropical Africa .
Some species are bred as ornamental, some species are melliferous.
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 110 species [3] :
- Arabis alpina L. - Alpine cactus typus
- Arabis brachycarpa Rupr. - Shortcuts
- Arabis farinacea Rupr. - Mealy creeper
- Arabis flaviflora Bunge - Yellow Cuckoo
- Arabis gerardii Besser - Gerard Crusher
- Arabis hirsuta ( L. ) Scop. - Rough cutting
- Arabis ionocalyx Boiss . & Heldr. - Violet cup rezukha
- Arabis karategina Lipsky - Rezuha karategin
- Arabis kennedyae meilke
- Arabis kokanika Regel - Kokand
- Arabis nepetifolia boiss . - Rezhov kotovnikova
- Arabis nordmanniana ( Rupr. ) Rupr. - Rezucha Nordmann
- Arabis sagittata ( Bertol. ) DC. - Cloak arrow-shaped , or Cirrus hairy , or Cirrus arrow
- Arabis stelleri DC. - Steller's casing
- Arabis turrita L. - Tower casing