- Description:
Erect stems are slender and wiry. Leaves, produced mostly at the base of the plant, are
coarsely-toothed and covered with branched hairs. Flowers are four-petaled and white.
- Comments:
As is characteristic of the Mustard Family, draba flowers have four petals.
The Wedge-leaf Draba fruits are narrow and held almost upright. When the ripe fruit
capsules open, the tiny orange-brown seeds fall to the ground, leaving a thin, whitish
tissue that is smaller but similar to the cultivated “silver dollar plant.”
Another relative is garden horseradish. One of our tiniest and earliest spring plants,
Wedge-leaf Draba is found in dry, open soil on prairies in the eastern one-third of
Kansas.
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