Draba cuneifolia
Wedge leaved draba
Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Native
Wedge leaved draba is a California native annual herb found in southern Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, southwestern California, White and Inyo Mountains, and desert regions in open or disturbed places at elevations up to 2,100 meters. Flowering from January to May, this plant produces white flowers in compact clusters, with petals 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters long. Growing with slender stems 3 to 27 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive star-shaped hairs covering its leaves and stems. Its leaves are oblanceolate to broadly obovate, measuring 1 to 3.5 centimeters long, with toothed edges and a mix of stalked, multi-rayed hairs. The fruit is an oblong to linear pod 6 to 12 millimeters long, containing 24 to 66 tiny ovoid seeds.
Habitat: Open or disturbed places
Bloom period: Jan-May
Elevation: < 2100 m
Bioregions: s SN, SnJV, SW, W&I, D
California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial, Tulare, Inyo, Kern, Ventura, Stanislaus, Merced, Santa Barbara, Alameda, Colusa, Orange, Fresno
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.