Arabis ciliataClairv.

WFO wfo-0000542042 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Arabis ciliata, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. a Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203918385
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. b Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74372959
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80853249
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74267509
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201505182
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Christina
fig. f Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195875277
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Thomas Ebner
fig. g Thomas Ebner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137665832
Arabis ciliata, photographed by Thomas Ebner
fig. h Thomas Ebner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67321160

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Where it actually grows measured, from 71 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.0 °C -9.6 °C -5.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.5 °C 17.9 °C 23.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,034 mm 1,661 mm 2,406 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 165 mm 216 mm 478 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 71 research-grade observations of Arabis ciliata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arabis alpestris Schleich. ex Rchb.
  • Arabis arcuata Shuttlew. ex Godet
  • Arabis cenisia Reut.
  • Arabis ciliata Nyman
  • Arabis ciliata var. glabrata W.D.J.Koch
  • Arabis corymbiflora Vest
  • Arabis corymbiflora var. corymbiflora
  • Arabis corymbiflora var. glabrata Thell.
  • Arabis hirsuta DC.
  • Arabis hybrida Reut.
  • Arabis integrifolia Lapeyr.
  • Arabis stricta Sieber ex Tausch
  • Arabis subnitens Jord.
  • Crucifera alpestris E.H.L.Krause
  • Erysimum alpestre (Schleich. ex Rchb.) Kuntze
  • Erysimum arcuatum Kuntze
  • Erysimum rupestre (Hoppe ex Röhl.) Kuntze
  • Turrita arcuata (Shuttlew. ex Godet) Bubani
  • Turritis alpestris Schleich.
  • Turritis alpina L.
  • Turritis cenisia Fourr.
  • Turritis ciliata Hoffm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.