Slender Whitlow-grass - Draba albertina
Other Names:
Draba stenoloba var. nana
Native Species
Global Rank:
G4
State Rank:
SNR
C-value:
4
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Taprooted annual or biennial with a simple caudex. Stems 3–25 cm, often branched. Basal leaves narrowly lanceolate, 5–25 mm long with entire to weakly denticulate margins. Stem leaves 0 to 3, lanceolate. Vestiture of sparse, simple and forked hairs. Petals yellow, 2–3 mm long. Fruit linear, erect to ascending, 5–13 × 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; style <0.2 mm long; lower pedicels 5–12 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Sparsely vegetated soil of grasslands, open forest, streambanks; montane and subalpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).