| Drabella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Drabella (DC.) Fourr. |
| Species: | D. muralis |
| Binomial name | |
| Drabella muralis | |
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Drabella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Draba muralis, an annual or biennial known as wall whitlowgrass. [2] [3] It is native to southern, central and northern Europe, northwestern Africa (Morocco and Algeria), Turkey, Crimea, and the Caucasus. [1]
The species was first described as Draba muralis by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. In 1868 Jules Pierre Fourreau placed the species in the new genus Drabella. [1]