This section is from the book "An Illustrated Flora Of The Northern United States, Canada And The British Possessions Vol2", by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown. Also available from Amazon: An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 Volume Set..
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Draba fladnizensis Wulf. in Jacq, Misc. 1: 147. 1778.
Draba androsacea Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 174. 1812.
Draba cormybosa R. Br. in Ross, Voy. App. 143. 1819.
A low tufted arctic or alpine perennial. Leaves oblanceo-late basal, rosulate, acutish, entire, stellate-pubescent or with some simple hairs, ciliate or rarely nearly glabrous, 4"-8" long; flowers whitish; scapes glabrous; pedicels ascending, 1"-2" long in fruit; raceme at length somewhat elongated; pods oblong, glabrous, 2"-3" long, nearly 1" wide. style almost wanting.
Labrador; Mt. Albert, Gaspé, Quebec; and through arctic America, south in the higher Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Also in arctic and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer.
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Draba nivalis Lilj. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1793: 208. 1793.
Perennial by a short branched caudex; scapes tufted, somewhat pubescent, slender, leafless or sometimes bearing a small sessile leaf, 1'-4' high. Basal leaves usually numerous, tufted, oblanceolate or spatulate, 2"-7" long, entire, acutish or acute at the apex, narrowed into a short petiole, stellate-canescent, not ciliate, or slightly so near the base; flowers yellow, about 2" broad; calyx pubescent; style short; pods oblong or linear-oblong, narrowed at both ends, glabrous or but little pubescent, on ascending pedicels 1"-3" long.
Labrador and Greenland, through arctic America to Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and in the Sierra Nevada to Nevada. Also in northern Europe and Asia. Summer.
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Draba incana L. Sp. Pl. 643. 1753. Draba confusa Ehrh. Beitr. 7: 155. 1792.
Perennial or biennial; flowering stems erect, simple or somewhat branched, leafy, loosely pilose-pubescent, 16' high or less. Leaves 4"-12" long, acutish or obtuse, dentate or nearly entire, the basal ones oblanceolate, those of the flowering stems lanceolate to ovate; flowers white, 1"-1 1/2" broad; petals notched, twice as long as the calyx; pods oblong or lanceolate, acute, twisted when ripe, on short nearly erect pedicels, densely pubescent or glabrous; style minute.
In rocky places, Newfoundland and Labrador to Quebec. Also in arctic and alpine Europe. • Hunger-flower. Nailwort. Summer.
Draba hirta L. of high boreal regions has fewer stem-leaves and longer fruiting pedicels.
 
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