Draba reptans

Carolina draba

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Carolina draba is a naturalized annual found in northern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Emigrant Gap and northern Desert Mountains in the western Panamint Range at elevations of 1,500 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from February to August, this plant produces small white flowers on umbel-like clusters with 5 to 12 blooms. Growing with delicate unbranched stems 3 to 12 centimeters tall, it features distinctive two- and four-rayed hairs on its lower stem. Its basal leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, 5 to 23 millimeters long, with stalked hairs on the underside and simple hairs on the upper surface. The slender fruits are linear to narrowly oblong, 7 to 16 millimeters long and glabrous.

Habitat: Very uncommon. Open or disturbed areas

Bloom period: Feb-Aug

Elevation: 1500-3000 m

Bioregions: n SNH (Emigrant Gap), n DMtns (w Panamint Range)

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