Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Draba lonchocarpa Rydb. sect. Leucodraba |
Bibliography | Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 181 (1900) |
Native Range | ne. Siberia to w. USA |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | scree |
Altitude | 300-4000m |
Description | grey cinereous, leaves crowded, linear to oblanceolate, 5-15mm long, densely tomentose, raceme 3-15-flowered, petals 2-5mm long, silicles linear to oblanceolate |
Size | 3-11cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings of rosettes in late summer |
Synonyms | Draba lonchocarpa var. exigua O.E.Schulz Draba lonchocarpa var. semitonsa Payson & H.St.John Draba lonchocarpa var. vestita O.E.Schulz Draba nivalis var. elongata S.Watson Draba nivalis var. exigua (O.E.Schulz) C.L.Hitchc. Draba nivalis var. lonchocarpa (Rydb.) Hultén |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (CAL California, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) |