Arabis serpillifolia, Vili

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 292

11. A. serpillifolia Vili ., Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 39 (1779)

(inch A. nivalis Guss. ).

Biennial or perennial 5-25 cm, laxly caespitose; stems slender, usually flexuous, glabrous or minutely stellate-pubescent. Basal leaves long-petiolate, oblong, stellate-pubescent or glabrous, with unbranched and 2-fid hairs on the margin; cauline leaves 3-5, oblong-ovate, entire, the lower attenuate, the upper rounded at the base. Flowers 7-16; petals 4-6 mm, white or rarely pink. Infructescence more or less lax; siliqua 15-30 x 1- T 2 mm, equalling the flowers when immature; pedicels 2-4 mm; valves flat, with indistinct vein. Seeds unwinged. • Mountains of S. Europe, extending northwards through the Alps to the French Jura. Al Cr Ga He Hs It Ju.