rockcress

English

Alternative forms

• rock-cress, rock cress

Etymology

rock +‎ cress

Noun

rockcress (countable and uncountable, plural rockcresses)

1. Any of several similar genera of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae: in genera Arabis, with primarily Old World species; Arabidopsis (syn. Cardaminopsis), with primarily Old World species; and Boechera and Braya, with primarily North American species.

Derived terms

• alpine rockcress (Arabis alpinas)
• Armenian rockcress (Arabis armena)
• beautiful rockcress (Boechera pulchra)
• Braun's rockcress (Boechera perstellata)
• Brewer's rockcress (Boechera breweri)
• Bristol rockcress (Arabis scabra)
• coast rockcress (Arabis blepharophylla)
• Constance's rockcress (Boechera constancei)
• Crandall's rockcress (Boechera crandallii)
• desert rockcress (Boechera lignifera)
• Drummond's rockcress (Boechera stricta)
• Glenwood Springs rockcress (Boechera oxylobula)
• Grouse Creek rockcress (Boechera falcatoria)
• Gunnison County rockcress (Boechera pallidifolia)
• Gunnison's rockcress (Boechera gunnisoniana)
• hairy rockcress (Arabis hirsuta)
• Hoffmann's rockcress (Boechera hoffmannii)
• Holboell's rockcress (Boechera holboellii)
• Kazbegian rockcress (Arabis kazbegi)
• Last Chance rockcress (Boechera yorkii)
• Missouri rockcress (Boechera missouriensis)
• northern rock cress (Arabis petraea)
• Ophir rockcress (Boechera ophira)
• perennial rockcress (Boechera perennans)
• pinyon rockcress (Boechera dispar)
• pioneer rockcres (Boechera platyspermas)
• sagebrush rockcress (Boechera cobrensis)
• sapphire rockcress (Boechera fecunda)
• Selby's rockcress (Boechera gracilenta)
• sicklepod rockcress (Boechera sparsiflora)
• smooth rockcress (Boechera laevigata)
• soldier rockcress (Boechera depauperata)
• spreading rockcress (Boechera patens)
• toothed rockcress (Boechera dentata)
• Tulare rockcress (Boechera tularensis)
• Arctic rock cress (Arabidopsis arenicola)
• sand rock cress (Arabidopsis arenosa)
• slender rock cress (Arabis pycnocarpa)
• spreading rock cress (Arabis procurrens)
• rainbow rock cress (Aubrieta spp.)

Translations

plant of the genus Arabis

• Bulgarian: гъшарка f (gǎšarka)
• Catalan: àrabis (ca) f
• Finnish: pitkäpalko (fi)

plant of the genus Arabidopsis

• Finnish: lituruoho (fi)

plant of the genus Boechera

• Finnish: kaartolitu

plant of the genus Cardaminopsis

• Finnish: hietapitkäpalko (fi)

plant of genus Braya

• Finnish: lidukki (fi)