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Milky draba

Draba lactea

Also called Milky Whitlow Grass, Lapland Whitlow Grass, Yakutsk Draba

Milky draba
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Subarctic
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Draba lactea, the Lapland whitlow-grass or milky whitlow-grass, is a flower common throughout the high Arctic. It stretches further south in mountainous areas of Norway, Montana, Canada, and Greenland.

The plant is 2–5 cm tall, and caespitose. The flower stems are glabrous. The leaves have stellate hairs on the surface and simple hairs at the margins. The flowers are pure white, and there are many flowers on each stem. Flowers bloom June to August.

Other Draba plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Draba lactea 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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