| Draba aurea Vahl | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Draba luteola Greene. | ||
| Description | Stem tall, straight, several-leaved, pilose-hirsute, somewhat branched or un- branched; basal leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, entire or dentate, somewhat acute, often red below, densely covered on both sides with simple, forked and stellate hairs; petals pale yellow to bright yellow; silicles lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, often twisted, pubescent with simple, branched and stellate hairs; style 0.5-1.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, gravelly slopes. Described from Greenland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A highly variable species. |
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.