General:
Loosely tufted perennial herb from a taproot and a simple or branched stem-base; stems erect, 10-40 cm tall, starlike-hairy, rarely with a few simple hairs below.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate, 0.5-4 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, entire or toothed; stem leaves 2-10, egg-shaped to lanceolate, 0.8-3 cm long, 3-12 mm wide, toothed or entire; hairy with stalked starlike hairs, 4- to 5-rayed with the longer 2 rays usually paralleling the leaf axis and again branched; margins hairy-fringed with mostly simple or branched hairs, generally starlike with branches again branched.

Flowers:
Racemes several- to many-flowered, occasionally with solitary flowers in upper leaf axils; flower stalks 2-15 mm long, ascending, straight, sparsely soft-hairy to glabrous; petals white, occasionally cream to yellow, notched at the tips, 3.5-5 mm long; sepals 2-3 mm long, sparsely soft-hairy.

Fruits:
Silicles, 6-15 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, lanceolate to oblong, plane or rarely twisted, glabrous or short-hairy; styles less than 0.25 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Draba arabisans var. canadensis (Burnet) Fern. & Knowlt.
Draba daurica DC.
Draba glabella var. megasperma (Fern. & Knowlt.) Fern.
Draba glabella var. orthocarpa (Fern. & Knowlt.) Fern.
Draba hirta auct. non L.
Draba megasperma Fern. & Knowlt.