Abdra brachycarpa (Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray) Greene

Short Pod Whitlow Grass

Herb

Annual

Vascular

Short Pod Whitlow Grass is a native herbaceous winter annual in the Mustard family (Brassicaceae). It can be found throughout most of Alabama. Short Pod Whitlow Grass occurs in lawns, in pastures, in cemeteries, on roadsides, in cedar glandes, and in prairies. It is an annual with a taproot. Stems are 1-5 inches in height, branched or simple, and pubescent with sessile cruciform trichomes. Basal leaves are petiolate, oblanceolate in outline, entire, and pubescent with cruciform trichomes. Stem leaves are sessile, lanceolate to linear in outline, entire, and pubescent with cruciform trichomes. Flowers are produced in terminal racemes. Individual flowers are pedicilate and have 4 white petals. The fruit is a flattened, glabrous, elliptic silique. For many years this species was known as Draba brachycarpa, and may appear as such in many wildflower guides.—A. Diamond

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Native

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