northern rock cress

English

Noun

northern rock cress (uncountable)

1. A member of species Arabis petraea, a kind of rockcress, growing in central and northern Europe. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 155:

     On the rock walls, there are several clumps of northern rock-cress.