Drabella

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Drabella
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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
Synonyms [1]
  • Crucifera capselloidesE.H.L.Krause
  • Draba muralisL. (1753) (basionym)
  • Draba muralis f. majorBolzon
  • Draba muralis f. minorBolzon
  • Draba nemorosaAll.
  • Draba ramosaGaterau
  • Drabella columnaeBubani

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Drabella muralis (L.) Fourr". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  2. https://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/draba_muralis_wall_whitlowgrass.htm (accessed 5 March 2020)
  3. https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/plant/draba-muralis (accessed 5 March 2020)