Arabis caucasica--France. Nancy. Jard. Bot. Montet. 1 May 05. 133.jpg
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
France (Le Jardin Botanique du Montet)
Location Remarks
100 rue du Jardin Botanique, Nancy
Collectors
No collectors specified
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.
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%
