Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Draba albertina
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- CommonName
- slender draba, slender whitlow-grass
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1900
- LatestDate
- 2023
- Ecosystem
- montane
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- North
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- In the Watershed Draba albertina has been regularly but not frequently collection in the western mountains, but not the eastern ones. Habitats include meadows, rocky slopes, stream sides, light forests, and occasionally forest road sides. It has been found in the tundra elsewhere (e.g., in the San Juan River drainage). With the few collections from northern New Mexico, the Watershed locations lie on the southeast corner of the USA distribution, which includes all states west of the Great Plains. This is an annual whitlow-grass, with weakly developed roots. To distinguish Draba albertina from D. nemorosa and D. crassifolia, attention is needed to stem leaves and the hairs on the upper and lower surfaces, relative length of fruiting pedicels and fruit, and pubescence of stems.
- Annotation