Index / Search / Arabidopsis thaliana
§1 Plant — species · Brassicaceae
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
vernacular mouseear cress
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Arabidopsis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 22 of 56 Montana counties.
Introduced · 22 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Ravalli 30081
- Sanders 30089
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Wheatland 30107
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARTH ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3052436 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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