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woods draba, woodland whitlow-grass

Habit Annuals; stems 0.6-4.5 dm, not branched or branched towards ends, dense pubescence towards base and glabrous towards ends, with simple trichomes 0.5-1.3 mm and stalked trichomes with 2-4 rays, 0.1-0.5 mm.
Leaves

Basal leaves often form rosettes, petioles ciliate, blades oblong or oblanceolate, 1-3.5 cm long and 5-15 mm broad, margins dentate to finely toothed or occasionally nearly entire; varying amounts of pubescence above and beneath with cruciform trichomes and stalked trichomes with 2-3 rays;

cauline leaves generally 4-12 but sometimes 15, sessile, ovate or oblong, margins as basal, pubescent above and beneath, trichomes above as basal leaves and beneath mostly simple trichomes combined with 2-3-rayed trichomes.

Flowers

Inflorescence racemose, usually 18-60 flowered, ebracteate, significantly elongated in fruit;

rachis rigid and straight, fully glabrous;

pedicels spreading, straight, 2-7 times longer than fruit, glabrous;

sepals 4, ovate, 0.9-1.6 mm long, scarcely pubescent with simple trichomes;

petals 4, yellow, narrower towards base with deep notches, 1.7-2.2 mm long and 0.6-1 mm broad;

anthers 0.1-0.2 mm, broadly ovate to slightly reniform.

Fruits

Silicles 5-8 mm long and 1.5-2.5 mm broad, oblong to elliptic or occasionally narrower toward base, plane, somewhat flattened;

valves glabrous or pubescent with simple trichomes;

ovaries generally containing 36-60 ovules;

seeds ovoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long and 0.3-0.4 mm broad.

Draba graminea

Draba nemorosa

Flowering time March-June
Habitat Disturbed open areas and forest edges at low to middle elevations.
Distribution
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In scattered locations on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across the northern half of the U.S. and Canada to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin Introduced from Eurasia
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
D. albertina, D. aurea, D. aureola, D. cana, D. crassifolia, D. densifolia, D. incerta, D. lonchocarpa, D. nemorosa, D. novolympica, D. oligosperma, D. platycarpa, D. praealta, D. reptans, D. ruaxes, D. stenoloba, D. taylori, D. taylorii, D. thompsonii, D. verna
D. albertina, D. aurea, D. aureola, D. cana, D. crassifolia, D. densifolia, D. incerta, D. lonchocarpa, D. novolympica, D. oligosperma, D. platycarpa, D. praealta, D. reptans, D. ruaxes, D. stenoloba, D. taylori, D. taylorii, D. thompsonii, D. verna
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