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Mount Eddy Draba, Mt. Eddy Draba

Habit Perennials; (loosely cespitose); caudex branched (somewhat surculose, with persistent leaf bases, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose.
Stems

unbranched, 0.3–1.2 dm, glabrous throughout.

Basal leaves

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.

Cauline leaves

0.

Racemes

2–6-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit;

rachis not flexuous, glabrous.

Flowers

sepals ovate, 3–4 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, oblanceolate, 5–7 × 1.3–2 mm;

anthers oblong, 0.7–0.9 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending, straight, 3–8 mm, usually glabrous, rarely trichomes simple.

Fruits

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.

Seeds

(broadly winged), orbicular, 3–4.5 in diam.; (wing 1–1.5 mm wide).

Draba carnosula

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Open rocky hillsides
Elevation 2800-3100 m (9200-10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 299.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba
Sibling taxa
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
Synonyms D. howellii var. carnosula
Name authority O. E. Schulz: in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr. 89[IV,105]: 82. (1927)
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