Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of cruciferous plants, low herbaceous perennials, or rarely annuals, often cespitose, distinguished by ovate or oblong many-seeded pods with flat nerveless valves parallel to the broad septum.
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- noun any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique
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Examples
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Mountain dryas, yellow and white draba and arabis species, golden daisy, anemones, and white, rose and yellow heathers make thick carpets of green that cover most of the plateau.
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But tucked in amongst the rocky ledges and crevices was a rich variety of flowers, including two rare, strictly-alpine species, arctic draba and Lyall's rockress, that until now had eluded me.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Karin Teague Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO 2009
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Also on the summit are twisted-arm draba and James 'snowlover, two of the 15 alpine species identified as "rare" in the must-have book for amateur botanists, Rare Plants of Colorado.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Karin Teague Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO 2009
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Also on the summit are twisted-arm draba and James 'snowlover, two of the 15 alpine species identified as "rare" in the must-have book for amateur botanists, Rare Plants of Colorado.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Karin Teague Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO 2009
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But tucked in amongst the rocky ledges and crevices was a rich variety of flowers, including two rare, strictly-alpine species, arctic draba and Lyall's rockress, that until now had eluded me.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Karin Teague Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO 2009
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But tucked in amongst the rocky ledges and crevices was a rich variety of flowers, including two rare, strictly-alpine species, arctic draba and Lyall's rockress, that until now had eluded me.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Karin Teague Special to The Aspen Times Aspen, CO 2009
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Station: Cataracts which stopped the Expedition* discover the Sources of the Nile by * Kirira River & Bari Kingdom heard of* the draba south of the Equator.]
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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