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Common Name: mouse-ear cress
Scientific Name: Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
Family Name: Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) - Mustard Family

Identification Notes:

life cycle – winter annual, reproducing by seed

stems - reproductive, upright, branch or unbranched, pubescent, single or multiple form base growth habit 1, growth habit 2

leaves – basal rosette, oblanceolate or oblong, entire or slightly toothed, pubescent with star-shaped hairs, stem leaves smaller, sessile, entire rosette

flowers – 4-petaled, white, terminal and axillary racemes, compact becoming elongated in fruit

seedpods – silique, cylindrical, narrow, long seedpod 1, seedpod 2

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