Family | Brassicaceae |
Scientific name | Turritis glabra L. |
Synonyms | Arabis glabra (L.) Bernhardi; Arabis glabra (L.) Bernhardi var. furcatipilis M. Hopkins; Arabis macrocarpa (Nuttall) Torrey; Arabis perfoliata Lamarck; Arabis pseudoturritis Boissier & Heldreich; Turritis dregeana Sonder; Turritis glabra L. var. lilacina O. E. Schulz; Turritis macrocarpa Nuttall; Turritis pseudoturritis (Boissier & Heldreich) Velenovsky |
Common name | (Japanese common name) hata-zao (ハタザオ, 旗竿 [meaning: flag pole]) |
(English common name) tower mustard, tower rockcress | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
(Other nations) Russia, China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Algeria, Morocco, Canada, USA | |
Habitat | Field, forest edge |
Chromosomal number | 2n=12, 16, 32 |
Description | Plants electing 70-100cm tall. Leaves 3-14cm long. Flowers white petals 5-6mm long, flowering May to June. Winter annual plants. |
Reference | Turritis glabra L. |
Turritis glabra Linnaeus | |
Method of using DNA episomes to suppress gene expression in plants (US Patent 20020148005) | |
Method of producing and screening antibodies produced in transgenic plants (US Patent 20060075521) |
June 2007 at Hitachi Coastal Park |
June 2007 at Hitachi Coastal Park |
June 2007 at Hitachi Coastal Park |
June 2007 at Hitachi Coastal Park |
June 2007 at Hitachi Coastal Park |