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Slender draba

Draba albertina

Also called Slender Whitlow Grass

Slender draba
Photo: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA, CC BY 2.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Subarctic America to W. & WC. U.S.A.
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Draba albertina is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known as the Arc dome draba, slender draba or slender whitlow-grass.

Where it grows

This plant is native to western North America, where it grows at high elevations from Arizona to Alaska and northern Canada. Like many species of Draba, it can grow in alpine and Arctic climates.

Other Draba plants

Yellow whitlow-grass · Alpine draba · Draba aretioides · Rough draba · Lake Tahoe draba · Mt. Lassen draba · Draba bertiscea · Cushion draba · Snowbasin draba · Draba cacuminum · California draba · Mt. Eddy draba

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Draba albertina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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