General:
Tufted perennial herb from a taproot and a branched stem-base, often clothed with dried remains of old leaves; stems 2-10 cm tall, hairy with simple and branched hairs.

Leaves:
All basal, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblanceolate, 5-12 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, hairy with long-stalked, starlike hairs on lower surface, long, simple and few-branched hairs on upper; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Racemes short, 3- to 10-flowered; petals yellow, 4-5 mm long.

Fruits:
Silicles, 5-8 mm long, 3.5-5.5 mm wide, oval to egg-shaped, plane, glabrous to densely soft-hairy with simple and branched hairs; fruiting stalks almost as long as silicles; styles 0.6-1.2 mm long; seeds 10-16, 1.5-2 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 exalata Ekman
Draba ventosa var. ruaxes (Payson & H. St. John) C.L. Hitchc.