Common name:
Wall whitlowgrass
Family:
Scientific name:
Draba muralis
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered areas of England and Scotland
Height:
Up to 25 cm
Habitat:
Old walls, limestone areas
Flowers:
In compact, terminal, slightly elongated clusters; four reddish sepals and four white petals, shallowly notched. Flowers often do not open fully
Fruit:
Flattened, elliptical pods, with residual stigma at the tip. Attached by ascending stalks, a little longer than the pods
Leaves:
Ovate, toothed, with a covering of crisped white hairs. In a basal rosette and at widely-spaced intervals (alternate, clasping) along the stem, which is also hairy, the hairs branched
Season:
April to May
Rarity:
★★★★★
