Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Draba alpina L. sect. Chrysodraba |
Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 642 (1753) |
Native Range | Subarctic to c. & e. Canada |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-1000m |
Description | basal leaves in rosette, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, entire, shortly petiolate, raceme compact, 4-10-flowered, in fruit elongate, sepals oblong, obtuse, petals 4-5mm long |
Size | 5-15cm |
Color | bright yellow |
Bloom | summer |
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Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings of rosettes in late summer |
Synonyms | Draba x algida var. breviscapa Hook. Draba alpina f. brachycarpa (Hook.) O.E.Schulz Draba alpina f. breviscapa O.E.Schulz Draba alpina var. corymbosa Durand Draba alpina var. genuina Pohle Draba alpina var. glabrata Lindblom Draba alpina var. hebecarpa Lindlblom Draba alpina var. hydeana B.Boivin Draba alpina var. inflatisiliqua Polunin Draba alpina var. intermedia Hook. Draba alpina var. legitima Lindblom Draba alpina f. longipedunculata Pohle Draba alpina var. major Hook. Draba alpina var. nana Hook. Draba alpina var. pohlei O.E.Schulz Draga gelida Turcz. Draba reuteri Boiss. & A.Huet Draba wahlenbergii var. gelida (Turcz.) Regel |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut) 71 Western Canada (MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) |