Description: Annual plant, covered with sharp hairs. The lower leaves are composed into a rosette. The leaves on the stem are oblong wrapping  the stem. The flowers are pale pink in color and are collected in inflorescences at the top of the stem. The fruit is a flat silicula .

Flowering time: May-July

Habitat: poor, sandy soils.

Interesting fact: About 15 species of hairy rock-cress grow in Croatia, some of them are grown as ornamental species (Arabis albida).