Arabidopsis thaliana

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Species Distribution Map
Family:BRASSICACEAE
Species:Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
Common Name:Mouse Ear Cress; Thalecress
Habitat:Cemetaries, roadsides, and other disturbed sandy sites.
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:ARTH
Plant Notes:Mouse Ear Cress is an introduced winter annual in the Mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. Mouse Ear Cress can be found throughout Alabama. Typical habitats include cemetaries, fallow fields, roadsides, along railroad tracks, and gravel parking lots. Mouse Ear Cress produces a basal rosette of leaves in the early winter that is about the size of a quarter or smaller. In late winter and early spring the flowering shoots are produced, and rapidly grow to a height of three to six inches. There may be a few reduced leaves along the flowering stem, but it is essentially leafless. Flowering stems are unbranched, or branched from near the middle. The flowers have four white petals. The elongated fruit is a silique (a dry fruit that is more than three times as long as broad. When the seed are mature the outer halves of the fruit fall away leaving the seed exposed on a papery septum). Mouse Ear Cress is to plant genetics what the Fruit Fly is to animal genetics. It has been used as a model organism because it has a small genome, the small size of the plant, its rapid life cycle (going from seed to seed in six weeks or less), and it is easily grown in the lab. It was the first plant genome to be sequenced, completed in 2000 by the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative.--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native, GNR (Global Rank)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyBRASSICACEAE - Mustard family
Genus Arabidopsis
Species Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. - Mouse Ear Cress; Thalecress

Citation

Citation Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold, in Heynhold & Holl, Fl. Sachsen 538. 1842.
Basionym: Arabis thaliana L. 1753.
Type: Without data (lectotype: LINN 842.5). Lectotypified by O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz, Novon 7: 327. 1997.

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Arabis thaliana Arabis thaliana Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 665. 1753.   
Sisymbrium thalianum    
Stenophragma thaliana    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Covington, Crenshaw, Cullman, Dallas, DeKalb, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Macon, Madison, Marengo, Marion, Marshall, Mobile, Montgomery, Morgan, Pickens, Pike, Tuscaloosa

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1872 - 1997

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
JSU113934 Etowah 26 Mar 1968 Brown, Dickie
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_9439 Lee 10 Apr 1960 Jones, Jr., Samuel B.
513		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AMAL00006004 Tuscaloosa 07 Apr 2001 Spaulding, Daniel D.
10999		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000046225 Dallas 22 Mar 2018 Diamond, Alvin R.
28114		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0054216 Cleburne 18 Jan 2020 Spaulding, Daniel D.
16735		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113947 Morgan 27 Mar 1976 Whetstone, R. David
7749		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_18796 Fayette 11 Apr 1970 Rush, Larry
.029		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000046118 Covington 30 Dec 2017 Diamond, Alvin R.
28031		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000017073 Etowah 01 Apr 1971 Holder, J.A.
39		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113932 Elmore 31 Mar 1983 Whetstone, R. David
12992		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UNA00012171 Tuscaloosa 13 Apr 1878 Smith, Eugene A.
s.n.		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AUA_ACC_41386 Montgomery 21 Apr 1973 Cannon, Ed
117		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0014470 Marion 01 May 2009 England, J. Kevin
2033		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000044935 Autauga 09 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
394		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0015395 Franklin 03 Apr 2014 England, J. Kevin
4756		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_35523 Macon 10 Apr 1971 James, Audrey
46		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000011544 Pike 15 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18773		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0015072 Bullock 21 Feb 2013 Dykes, Bailee
1522		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UNA00061194 Colbert 16 Mar 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11685		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113942 Marshall 26 Mar 1973 Whetstone, R. David
822		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_51734 Crenshaw 14 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7284		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UNA00012162 Pickens 08 May 1969 Thomas, Joab L.
2042		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0046382 Autauga 20 Feb 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1524		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113930 Cullman 29 Mar 1997 Whetstone, R. David
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0046352 Autauga 06 Feb 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1501		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113938 Madison 6 Apr 1976 Atkinson, Tim A.
1229		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_66854 Cherokee 27 Mar 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12223		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000045325 Marengo 20 Apr 2013 England, J. Kevin
4170		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_30536 Macon 2 Mar 1976 Gudauskas, R.T.
S.N.		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AMAL00006001 Colbert 16 Mar 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11685		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0016185 Barbour 26 Jan 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24760		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Haynhold
AMAL00006003 Colbert 15 Apr 1996 Spaulding, Daniel D.
8820		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000039495 Elmore 05 Mar 2012 Pullen, Robert
334		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113939 Madison 14 Mar 1973 Gurley, Bob
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_52647 Pike 11 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7261		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0002887 Montgomery 20 Mar 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
21787		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113924 Blount 14 Mar 1971 Decker, Mickey
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_15570 Colbert 19 Mar 1965 N.W.U.
 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000003245 Barbour 23 Mar 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15014		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_45275 Macon 5 Apr 1979 Crawford, Daniel S.
43		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
ALNHS00004522 Lawrence 05 Apr 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2880		 ALNHS
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000003247 Pike 04 Mar 2001 Diamond, Alvin R.
12285		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_7680 Lee 10 Apr 1960 Jones, Jr., Samuel B.
187		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000048257 Autauga 20 Feb 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1524		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113944 Montgomery 24 Apr 1964 Bozarth, Gene A.
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0002024 Montgomery 14 Mar 2010 Diamond, Alvin R.
21173		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UNA00065662 Cherokee 27 Mar 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12223		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113943 Marshall 27 Mar 1976 Whetstone, R. David
7691		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_11167 Lee 8 Apr 1963 Rogers, Ken E.
 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000039086 Elmore 09 Mar 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24826		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UNA00048921 Barbour 10 May 1997 MacDonald, John R.
10458		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113923 Blount 31 Mar 1976 Whetstone, R. David
7875		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UNA00022070 Franklin 28 Mar 1973 Kral, Robert
49365		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113937 Limestone 21 Apr 1997 Hofmann, Tim L.
00408		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_34589 Lee 11 Apr 1971 Tatum, E.M.
54A		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000048330 Autauga 06 Feb 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1501		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0014198 Bullock 29 Mar 2012 Dykes, Bailee
481		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AMAL00011636 Cherokee 27 Mar 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12223		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000033274 Montgomery 14 Mar 2010 Diamond, Alvin R.
21173		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_51585 Crenshaw 22 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7302		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113945 Morgan 15 Mar 1999 Spaulding, Daniel D.
10550		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_53020 Bullock 13 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7276		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0039019 Lawrence 17 Mar 2019 England, J. Kevin
9942		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113936 Jackson 14 Mar 1973 Whetstone, R. David
233		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113931 DeKalb 15 Apr 1973 Kral, Robert
49609		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0017525 Marengo 20 Apr 2013 England, J. Kevin
4170		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_72134 Marengo 20 Apr 2013 England, J. Kevin
4170		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000016990 Butler 13 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18765		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113926 Calhoun 29 Mar 1970 Niblett, Terry J.
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113933 Etowah 1 Apr 1971 Wayner, Gary A.
s.n.		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_60880 Dallas 24 Mar 1977 Sessler, Ann H.
810		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AMAL00006002 Colbert 15 Apr 1996 Spaulding, Daniel D.
8811		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000038530 Bullock 29 Mar 2012 Dykes, Bailee
481		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113927 Cherokee 20 Mar 1980 Allred, S.
022		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000017072 Colbert 16 Mar 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11685		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113940 Marshall 28 Mar 1973 Whetstone, R. David
977		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0008206 Pike 15 Mar 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
18773		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000003246 Coffee 03 Mar 2000 Martin, Brian H.
462		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_51774 Pike 16 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7290		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UNA00012172 Tuscaloosa 05 Apr 1872 Smith, Eugene A.
s.n.		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AUA_ACC_2375 Macon 7 Mar 1956 Clark, V.J.
 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UNA00012161 Tuscaloosa 3 Apr 1963 Files, Gary
2		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000017071 Cherokee 27 Mar 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12223		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UNA00012174 Greene 14 Apr 1969 Thomas, Joab L.
1979		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AUA_ACC_49302 Bullock 27 Mar 1988 Diamond, Alvin R.
4312		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000034700 Montgomery 14 Mar 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
22846		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_41387 Elmore 14 Apr 1973 Harwell, W.Charles
109		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AUA_ACC_23619 Macon 1 Apr 1971 Donavan, Lois A.
48		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AUA_ACC_53021 Bullock 13 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7280		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UNA00012173 Mobile _ Mar 1878 Mohr, Charles
s.n.		 UNA
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0036275 Autauga 12 Mar 2017 Horne, Howard E.
3723		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113946 Morgan 29 Mar 1997 Spaulding, Daniel D.
9537		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0032499 Lawrence 28 Mar 2015 England, J. Kevin
5378		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113929 Cherokee 1 Apr 1976 Atkinson, Tim A.
1013		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_72479 Lauderdale 15 Apr 2013 Spaulding, Daniel D.
13714		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000039109 Barbour 26 Jan 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
24760		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
JSU113928 Cherokee 25 Mar 1976 Whetstone, R. David
7576		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AMAL00006005 Etowah 23 Mar 1989 Spaulding, Daniel D.
51		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
UWAL0016503 Lauderdale 15 Apr 2013 Spaulding, Daniel D.
13714		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
AMAL00005179 Lauderdale 15 Apr 2013 Spaulding, Daniel D.
13714		 AMAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113941 Marshall 13 Mar 1992 Spaulding, Daniel D.
1151		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_51958 Barbour 13 Mar 1991 Diamond, Alvin R.
7273		 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
UWAL0034413 Cherokee 01 Apr 1995 Kral, Robert
84381		 UWAL
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113935 Etowah 22 Mar 1984 Nixon, Christopher F.
597		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_13378 Etowah 26 Mar 1968 O'Neal, Judy
 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
TROY000038029 Bullock 21 Feb 2013 Dykes, Bailee
1522		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
AUA_ACC_538 Montgomery 24 Jan 1964 Creel, John
 AUA
Arabidopsis Thaliana (L.) Heynh.
ALNHS00004547 Montgomery 07 Mar 2017 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2923		 ALNHS
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
JSU113925 Calhoun 28 Mar 1978 Maples, Celia
25		 JSU
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
TROY000050643 Franklin 03 Apr 2014 England, J. Kevin
4756		 TROY
Arabidopsis thaliana (Linnaeus) Heynhold
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