Botanical name: Dontostemon glandulosus    Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Arabis glandulosa, Sisymbrium glandulosum, Alaida glandulosa

Glandular Rock-Cress is a short annual, erect to spreading, 4-10 cm long, sparsely hairy with simple and glandular hairs. Basal leaves are in a rosette, narrowly spoon-shaped or linear, 1-2.5 cm long, 3-5 mm broad, entire or wavy-toothed. Flowers are borne in 10-25-flowered racemes, up to 6 cm long in fruit. Flowers are 3-4 mm across, white or pinkish; flower-stalks up to 8 mm long in fruit, rising up, glandular. Sepals are 2-2.5 mm long. Petals are 3.5-4 mm long, about 1.5 mm broad, tip somewhat notched or nearly rounded. Stamens are about 2.5-3 mm long. Seedpods are linear, nearly cylindrical, 2-2.5 cm long, about 1 mm broad, glandular. Glandular Rock-Cress is found in Central Asia to W. & N. China and Himalaya, at altitudes of 1900-5300 m. Flowering: June-July.

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