Native to Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Yemen; introduced into Austria, Belgium, British Columbia, Canary Is., Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Illinois, Ireland, Madeira, Michigan, New Brunswick, New York, Norway, Ontario, Québec, Sweden, Switzerland, West Himalaya, Yukon (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.
Location
Iraq, Kurdistan, Sulaimani Governorate
35.778472, 45.243639
Location Remarks
Shakh-i Pira Magrun, NW-SE trending anticline exposing mosly dolomitic limestone. Randu Gaura. Upslope from Merga Pan, then 1.3-1.8 km SW into a narrow canyon with persisting snowbank. 1356-1445 m elev.
Collectors
S. Salih, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Diffuse woodland of coppiced Quercus and grassland/pasture land. Crevices between large boulders, by a small snowmelt stream.
Location
France (Le Jardin Botanique du Montet)
Location Remarks
100 rue du Jardin Botanique, Nancy
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Arabis
Specific Epithet
caucasica
Authorship
Willd.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.5
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#298,831 of 335,497
Top 90%
Extinction probability
10%