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|accepted_name=Aubrieta
|accepted_authority=Adanson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Pl.
|place=2: 420. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae;Aubrieta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aubrieta]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Claude Aubriet, 1663–1743, French artist
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 237, 243
|treatment_page=page 268
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; (often loosely pulvinate or cespitose, caudex many-branched); not scapose; pubescent, trichomes stellate, short-stalked or sessile, mixed with coarser, stalked, forked, and simple ones. <b>Stems</b> erect to decumbent, branched basally, (slender). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile [subsessile]; basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or dentate; cauline petiolate or sessile [subsessile], blade (base not auriculate), margins entire or dentate. <b>Racemes</b> (few- to several-flowered), elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels erect to divaricate, slender. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair saccate basally, (glabrous or pubescent); petals usually purple to violet, rarely white [pink], obovate [spatulate], (apex obtuse); stamens tetradynamous; filaments narrowly winged, (lateral pair with toothed appendage); anthers oblong [ovate]; nectar glands lateral, semi-annular, extrastaminal. <b>Fruits</b> siliques or, rarely, silicles, sessile, ellipsoid, [linear, oblong, or elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate; valves each with distinct midvein, pubescent or, rarely, glabrous; replum rounded; septum usually complete, sometimes perforate; ovules 10–40 per ovary; (style persistent); stigma capitate. <b>Seeds</b> biseriate, flattened, not winged, ovoid [elliptical]; seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons accumbent.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Europe;sw Asia;nw Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Aubrieta</i> is taxonomically challenging and is centered primarily in Greece and Turkey. The delimitation of species is often difficult, possibly because species have resulted from hybridization.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mattfield1939a
|text=Mattfield, J. 1939. The species of the genus Aubrieta Adanson. Quart. Bull. Alpine Gard. Soc. 7: 157–181, 217–227.
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|id=rollins1982b
|text=Rollins, R. C. 1982. Another alien in the California flora. Rhodora 84: 153–154.
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name=Aubrieta
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Calif.;Europe;sw Asia;nw Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=mattfield1939a;rollins1982b
|publication title=Fam. Pl.
|publication year=1763
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Arabideae
|genus=Aubrieta
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