Taxon: Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.

Common names:

• common wall cress   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• mouse-ear cress   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• thale cress   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• wall cress   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Acker-Schmalwand   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• backtrav   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: research in plant biology   (fide Science 269:303. 1995)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of kale   (based on reports of hybrids with Brassica oleracea by protoplast fusion fide Guide Germ Brassica)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of radish   (based on reports of hybrids with Raphanus sativus by protoplast fusion fide Guide Germ Brassica)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Lebanon [temperate Asia]; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.]; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire [e.]
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Northern Cape, Western Cape
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Santa Cruz; Chile; Uruguay

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) [= Arabis thaliana L.].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
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• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
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• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
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• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2009. PART III. Interspecific and intergeneric hybridization data. In: Warwick, S.I. et al., Guide to wild germplasm of Brassica and allied crops (Tribe Brassiceae, Brassicaceae), ed. 3 (on-line resource). 1–91.
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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arabidopsis thaliana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Arabis thaliana L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Sisymbrium thalianum (L.) J. Gay & Monnard
  

Check other web resources for Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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