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Draba
crassifolia Sub-alpine,
alpine. Woodlands, tundra, scree. Summer. These delicate plants are just beginning to flower and will elongate from their present two inches to perhaps four-six inches. Stems are leafless and smooth and basal leaves may be smooth or with a hairs along the margin (ciliate). Basal leaves range from 1-3 mm wide and 3-30 mm long in a tight tuft. The basal leaves of the plant pictured at left are of the long and narrow type. The Draba genus was named by Linnaeus in 1753 and this species was named by Graham in 1829 from garden plants grown from seed collected in in the 1820s by Thomas Drummond in the Canadian Rockies. "Crassifolia" is Latin for "thick-leaved", which these leaves surely are not. |
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Draba
crassifolia Sub-alpine,
alpine. Woodlands, tundra, scree. Summer. |
