''Draba breweri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The le ...

known by the common names cushion draba, Lanceleaf Draba, Brewer's draba, and Brewer's Whitlow grass.''Draba breweri''.
Calflora. 2013. With ''Draba cana'' now considered a variety of this species,''Draba breweri''.
Flora of North America. it is distributed throughout parts of northern and western North America, including much of Canada and the western United States. The less widespread var. ''breweri'' is limited to mountainous

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and western

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.''Draba breweri''.
USDA PLANTS. This is a perennial herb forming small clumps in rocky high mountain areas. Most of the leaves are located in a patch at the base of the stems, with a few higher up on the stems. They are oval in shape and hairy, with each white hair branching into a star shape. The erect

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

bears several white mustardlike flowers. The fruit is a twisted, hairy, lance-shaped

silique A silique or siliqua (plural ''siliques'' or ''siliquae'') is a type of fruit (seed capsule) having two fused carpels with the length being more than three times the width. When the length is less than three times the width of the dried fruit i ...

no longer than about a centimeter.

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''Draba breweri''.
The Jepson eFlora 2013.
''Draba breweri''.
CalPhotos. breweri {{Brassicales-stub