Draba breweri

Brewer's draba

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brewer's draba is a California native perennial found in the high Sierra Nevada, northern Sierra Nevada, and White and Inyo Mountains in open, rocky areas, talus, and exposed ridges above timberline at elevations of 3,100 to 4,100 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces small white flowers on compact clusters with 7 to 18 delicate blooms. Growing as a tufted, canescent herb with stems 2 to 10 centimeters tall, it forms dense clusters from a woody caudex covered in 4 to 10-rayed hairs. Its basal leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, 4 to 15 millimeters long, densely covered with multi-rayed hairs on both surfaces. The fruit is a flat, slightly twisted lance-shaped pod 3.5 to 9 millimeters long, containing 28 to 40 tiny ovoid seeds.

Habitat: Open, rocky areas, talus, exposed ridges, generally above timberline

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 3100-4100 m

Bioregions: CaRH, SNH, n SNE, W&ampI.

California counties: Fresno, Inyo, Tulare, Mono, Siskiyou, Madera, Tuolumne, Shasta, Alpine, Mariposa

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.