Draba corrugata

Southern California draba

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Southern California draba is a California native perennial found in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains in rocky slopes and pine woodland at elevations of 2,000 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces yellow flowers 2 to 3.5 millimeters long with linear petals. Growing with small stems 5 to 13 centimeters tall, covered in a mix of simple and multi-rayed hairs, it forms dense clusters. Its basal leaves are densely overlapping, 1 to 2.2 centimeters long, narrowly oblanceolate with ciliate margins and a mix of simple and two- to four-rayed hairs. The fruit is an elliptic, slightly twisted pod 5 to 20 millimeters long with 16 to 28 seeds.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, talus, pine woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 2000-3500 m

Bioregions: SnGb, SnBr

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside

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