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Species Information
General: Perennial herb from a large, white rhizome; stems stout, somewhat white-hairy, 10-50 cm tall, branched above.
Leaves: Basal leaves simple, toothed to entire, widely oblanceolate to egg-shaped, short-hairy, short- stalked; stem leaves similar, unstalked, clasping.
Flowers: Racemes in a flat-topped group, bractless with many small flowers; petals white, 3-4 mm long; sepals early deciduous, glabrous, margins white.
Fruits: Silicles, glabrous, 2.5-6.0 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, round to widely egg-shaped or heart-shaped, inflated, somewhat compressed.
Dry roadsides, fields and waste places in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; infrequent in S BC (ssp. draba) or rare in SC BC (ssp. chalapensis); introduced from Eurasia.
