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Latin name: Arabidopsis thaliana
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Family: Brassicaceae
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Common name: Mouse-ear cress
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Life cycle: annual, spreading by seed
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Habit: Initially plants form a basal
rosette that is more or less prostrate to the ground. Flower stalks
soon emerge and bear flowers in a terminal raceme.
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Foliage: Most of the plant's foliage
occurs in a basal rosette. Leaves are small (1 to 5 cm long), only
slightly dentate, and with stellate pubescence (the hairs are star shaped
when viewed under magnification).
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Flower: Flowers occur in a terminal
raceme. Each flower has 4 petals, they are white, and 2 to 4 mm wide.
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Seed pods: Cylindrical, 1 mm wide
and 1 to 2 cm long. Similar to seed pods on other plants in this family.
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