| Draba alpina L. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose; leaves oblong-lanceolate, with forked or branched hairs, ciliate with long, simple hairs; flowering stem leafless, pubescent with long, soft, simple or forked hairs; petals yellow or pale yellow; silicles ovate to oblong-ovate, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Stony places in the mountains and on tundra to at least 1,800 meters. Described from the European Alps. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Highly variable; hybridizes with several other species, such as D. macrocarpa, D. microcarpa, and D. pilosa. |
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.