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alpine whitlow-grass, golden alpine Draba, golden Draba, great alpine whitlow-grass, Mt. Lassen Draba, Mt. Lassen Draba whitlow-grass, Mt. Lassen whitlow-grass
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Mount Eddy Draba, Mt. Eddy Draba
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| Perennials; (short-lived); caudex simple or branched (poorly developed, with persistent dry leaves); not scapose. |
Perennials; (loosely cespitose); caudex branched (somewhat surculose, with persistent leaf bases, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. |
unbranched or branched, 0.3–1.5 dm, hirsute throughout, trichomes simple and long-stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.2–1.5 mm. |
unbranched, 0.3–1.2 dm, glabrous throughout. |
(forming dense clusters); rosulate; sessile; blade oblanceolate to linear, (0.7–)1–2.5(–3.2) cm × 2–3.5(–5) mm, margins entire, (ciliate, trichomes simple and 2-rayed, 0.5–1.5 mm), surfaces densely hirsute, abaxially with stalked, 3–5-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.5 mm, adaxially with simple and long-stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, to 1 mm, with smaller, 3–5-rayed ones. |
rosulate; petiolate; petiole (persistent, midvein prominent), ciliate, (trichomes sparse, short-stalked, 2–4-rayed, sometimes with simple ones, 0.2–0.5 mm); blade (somewhat fleshy), oblanceolate or spatulate to obovate, 0.3–1.5 cm × 1.5–5 mm, margins entire, (pubescent as petiole), surfaces glabrous. |
5–33; sessile; blade oblong to linear, margins entire, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
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12–83-flowered, ebracteate or proximalmost 1–9 flowers bracteate, slightly or not elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, hirsute as stem. |
2–6-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, glabrous. |
sepals ovate, 2.5–4 mm, glabrous; petals bright yellow, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 4–6 × 0.5–1(–1.2) mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.8–1 mm. |
sepals ovate, 3–4 mm, glabrous; petals yellow, oblanceolate, 5–7 × 1.3–2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.7–0.9 mm. |
horizontal to divaricate, usually straight, rarely curved upward, (3–)5–12(–19) mm, hirsute as stem. |
divaricate-ascending, straight, 3–8 mm, usually glabrous, rarely trichomes simple. |
oblong or, rarely, oblong-ovate, plane, flattened, (6–)9–14(–16) × 3–5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes stalked, 2–4-rayed, 0.07–0.5 mm; ovules 10–20 per ovary; style (0.6–)1–1.6(–2) mm. |
lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, plane, strongly flattened, 10–23 × 4–6 mm; valves (each with distinct midvein), glabrous; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 2–3 mm. |
oblong, 1.4–1.9 × 0.8–1.1 mm. |
(broadly winged), orbicular, 3–4.5 in diam.; (wing 1–1.5 mm wide). |
= 20. |
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| Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Flowering Jun–Jul. |
| Open conifer forests, alpine meadows and moraines, talus slopes |
Open rocky hillsides |
| 2200-3200 m (7200-10500 ft) |
2800-3100 m (9200-10200 ft) |
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Draba aureola is known from Lassen, Shasta, and Siskiyou counties in California, Deschutes County in Oregon, and Lewis and Pierce counties in Washington. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Although Draba carnosula was reduced by Hitchcock to a variety of D. howellii, it differs significantly by having leafless flowering stems, 2–6-flowered racemes, and broadly winged seeds 3–4.5 mm in diam. Draba howellii almost always has 1–3-leaved stems, (5–)7–18(–25)-flowered racemes, and not winged, distally appendaged seeds 1–1.6 mm in diam. Draba carnosula is known only from a few collections from Mount Eddy in Trinity County and the north side of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 7, p. 295. |
FNA vol. 7, p. 299. |
| Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba |
Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba |
D. abajoensis, D. albertina, D. aleutica, D. alpina, D. aprica, D. arabisans, D. arctica, D. arctogena, D. argyrea, D. arida, D. asprella, D. asterophora, D. aurea, D. bifurcata, D. borealis, D. brachycarpa, D. brachystylis, D. breweri, D. burkei, D. californica, D. cana, D. carnosula, D. chamissonis, D. cinerea, D. corrugata, D. corymbosa, D. crassa, D. crassifolia, D. cruciata, D. cuneifolia, D. cusickii, D. cyclomorpha, D. daviesiae, D. densifolia, D. exunguiculata, D. fladnizensis, D. glabella, D. globosa, D. graminea, D. grandis, D. grayana, D. heilii, D. helleriana, D. hitchcockii, D. howellii, D. incana, D. incerta, D. incrassata, D. inexpectata, D. jaegeri, D. juvenilis, D. kassii, D. kluanei, D. lactea, D. lemmonii, D. lonchocarpa, D. longisquamosa, D. macounii, D. maguirei, D. malpighiacea, D. micropetala, D. mogollonica, D. monoensis, D. mulliganii, D. murrayi, D. nemorosa, D. nivalis, D. norvegica, D. novolympica, D. oblongata, D. ogilviensis, D. oligosperma, D. oreibata, D. oxycarpa, D. palanderiana, D. pauciflora, D. paucifructa, D. paysonii, D. pectinipila, D. pedicellata, D. pennellii, D. petrophila, D. pilosa, D. platycarpa, D. porsildii, D. praealta, D. pterosperma, D. ramosissima, D. ramulosa, D. rectifructa, D. reptans, D. ruaxes, D. santaquinensis, D. saxosa, D. scotteri, D. serpentina, D. sharsmithii, D. sibirica, D. sierrae, D. simmonsii, D. smithii, D. sobolifera, D. spectabilis, D. sphaerocarpa, D. sphaeroides, D. standleyi, D. stenoloba, D. stenopetala, D. streptobrachia, D. streptocarpa, D. subalpina, D. subcapitata, D. subumbellata, D. trichocarpa, D. ventosa, D. verna, D. viridis, D. weberi, D. yukonensis, D. zionensis |
D. abajoensis, D. albertina, D. aleutica, D. alpina, D. aprica, D. arabisans, D. arctica, D. arctogena, D. argyrea, D. arida, D. asprella, D. asterophora, D. aurea, D. aureola, D. bifurcata, D. borealis, D. brachycarpa, D. brachystylis, D. breweri, D. burkei, D. californica, D. cana, D. chamissonis, D. cinerea, D. corrugata, D. corymbosa, D. crassa, D. crassifolia, D. cruciata, D. cuneifolia, D. cusickii, D. cyclomorpha, D. daviesiae, D. densifolia, D. exunguiculata, D. fladnizensis, D. glabella, D. globosa, D. graminea, D. grandis, D. grayana, D. heilii, D. helleriana, D. hitchcockii, D. howellii, D. incana, D. incerta, D. incrassata, D. inexpectata, D. jaegeri, D. juvenilis, D. kassii, D. kluanei, D. lactea, D. lemmonii, D. lonchocarpa, D. longisquamosa, D. macounii, D. maguirei, D. malpighiacea, D. micropetala, D. mogollonica, D. monoensis, D. mulliganii, D. murrayi, D. nemorosa, D. nivalis, D. norvegica, D. novolympica, D. oblongata, D. ogilviensis, D. oligosperma, D. oreibata, D. oxycarpa, D. palanderiana, D. pauciflora, D. paucifructa, D. paysonii, D. pectinipila, D. pedicellata, D. pennellii, D. petrophila, D. pilosa, D. platycarpa, D. porsildii, D. praealta, D. pterosperma, D. ramosissima, D. ramulosa, D. rectifructa, D. reptans, D. ruaxes, D. santaquinensis, D. saxosa, D. scotteri, D. serpentina, D. sharsmithii, D. sibirica, D. sierrae, D. simmonsii, D. smithii, D. sobolifera, D. spectabilis, D. sphaerocarpa, D. sphaeroides, D. standleyi, D. stenoloba, D. stenopetala, D. streptobrachia, D. streptocarpa, D. subalpina, D. subcapitata, D. subumbellata, D. trichocarpa, D. ventosa, D. verna, D. viridis, D. weberi, D. yukonensis, D. zionensis |
| D. aureola var. paniculata |
D. howellii var. carnosula |
| S. Watson: in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California 2: 430. (1880) |
O. E. Schulz: in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr. 89[IV,105]: 82. (1927) |
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