| Draba nivalis Liljebl. | |||
| |||
| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose; leaves oblong-obovate, densely grayish-pubescent, with short, stel- late hairs, sometimes with few simple hairs in lower margin; flowering stem leaf- less (rarely with single leaflet); inflorescence dense, elongated in fruit; sepals densely pubescent with simple or forking hairs; petals white; silicles elliptic to lan- ceolate, glabrous, with very short style. | ||
| Ecology | Dry mountains; to at least 2,600 meters in the St. Elias Range. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms with glabrous scapes and pedicels and also a few simple hairs might rep- resent the hybrid D. lactea X nivalis. |
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.