Draba longisquamosa

Granite draba

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Granite draba is a California native perennial found in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of Fresno and Tulare counties in gravelly areas at elevations of 3,000 to 3,900 meters. Flowering in July, this plant produces small yellow flowers in compact clusters with 4 to 16 blooms. Growing as a tufted, scapose herb with unbranched stems 1.5 to 9 centimeters tall, it forms dense clusters with stiff simple hairs covering the entire plant. Its leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, 5 to 20 millimeters long, with entire margins and ciliate edges covered in simple hairs on both surfaces. The fruit is ovate to nearly round, 3.5 to 7 millimeters long, bearing 10 to 16 small ovoid seeds.

Habitat: Gravelly areas

Bloom period: Jul

Elevation: 3000-3900 m

Bioregions: s SNH (Fresno, Tulare cos.).

California counties: Tulare, Inyo, Fresno, Tuolumne

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