Draba ramosissima Desv.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Draba ramosissima Desv.

• Description

  Species Description - Mat-forming perennial with a branching caudex; basal lvs oblanceolate, 1–5 cm, tapering to a long slender base; cauline lvs scattered, lanceolate to oblanceolate, both types sharply acute and with a few sharp, slender, divergent teeth; flowering stems 1–4 dm, thinly hairy, often branched above to form an eventually open and rather diffuse infl; pet white, 6–7 mm; mature pedicels thinly stellate, rather widely ascending, to 15 mm; frs elliptic to narrowly oblong, 4–10 mm, often twisted, thinly stellate; persistent style 1.5–3 mm; 2n=16. Dry mt. woods; Md. and Va. to W.Va., e. Ky., N.C., and Tenn. Apr., May.