Draba borealis DC.
 
FamilyCruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae
SynonymsDraba unalaschcensis DC.
DescriptionLoosely tufted; basal leaves ovate to obovate-oblong, entire or with few coarse teeth, pubescent with simple, forking or branched hairs; stem with simple hairs at least below, mixed with forked or branched hairs; stem leaves 2 to several, broad, coarsely toothed; pedicels densely pubescent with divaricate, long, simple hairs; petals white; silicles ovate-oblong to elliptic, often twisted; more or less densely pubescent with simple or forking hairs; style about 0.5 mm.
EcologyGrassy slopes in the mountains, rocks.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.