WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO

 
 

One or several branched or unbranched stems 1–10 inches tall bear a rounded cluster of small white flowers. Note the flowers have 4 petals, and the leaves and stem are covered with branched, star-shaped hairs (use lens).


FLOWER: February–May. Rounded, hairy clusters have 10–50 flowers; each flower is on a densely hairy stalk and has 4 small, oval, white petals. Cluster elongates in fruit with pods alternating below the flowers. Fruit is a narrow, flat, hairy pod 1/4–1/2 inch long (6–12 mm).


LEAVES: Crowded basally, few or none alternate on lower portion of stem. Blades oblong with pointed tip and narrow base, 3/4–1 3/8 inches long (1–3.5 cm); margins entire or slightly toothed near the tip; surfaces covered with star-shaped hairs (use lends).


HABITAT: Sandy, gravelly, clay soils; arroyos, floodplains, mesas, foothills, prairies, rocky outcrops, disturbed areas; desert scrub and grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands.


ELEVATION: 3,600–7,200 feet.


RANGE: AR, AZ, CA, CO, OK, NE, KS, NM, NV, TX, UT.


SIMILAR SPECIES: White Whitlow-wort, D. repans, in northern and cent. NM, has hairless flower clusters and pods; the cluster does not elongate in fruit so the pods mature into an erect cluster at the stem tip.


NM COUNTIES: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, McKinley, Otero, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance.

 

WEDGE-LEAF  DRABA

DRABA  CUNEIFOLIA

Brassicaeae, Mustard Family

Annual herb

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Leaves, stems, and flowers are covered with star-shaped hairs (use lens).

The flower cluster elongates as hairy pods mature so they are spread along the stem.

Most of the leaves are crowded near the base of the stem.