2010.03.26 Lower Austria, district Bruck/Leitha, on disturbed, open soil on Braunsberg south flank (240 m).Rosetta shot of detail flower shot from the same day.Quite common.German name: Rundfrucht-HungerblmchenID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
Tahoe draba, Draba asterophora, Slide Mountain, Sierra Nevada, Carson Range, Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest, elevation 2695 m (8845 ft). Substrate is rocky granitic colluvium.This rare plant is known only from the Mount Rose and Slide Mountain areas of the northern Carson Range in extreme western Nevada, in and just outside of the Lake Tahoe drainage basin. The diploid progenitor of this autotetraploid species survives in a separate population at the south end of the Carson Range in the Heavenly Mountain and Freel Peak areas on either side of the California-Nevada border. An auto-octoploid named var. macrocarpa comprises a third isolated population in the Cup Lake area of California.
2010.03.26 Lower Austria, district Bruck/Leitha, on disturbed, open soil on Braunsberg south flank (240 m).Detail from the habitat shot photo (note the round fruit).Quite common.German name: Rundfrucht-HungerblmchenID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
2010-04-02 Lower Austria, district Hollabrunn (Pulkautal heath 290 m AMSL).Habitus.German name: Schmalfrucht-Hungerblmchen (Eigentliches Frhlings-Hungerblmchen)ID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora A FL SdT (2008 3rd); this is Draba verna s. str., of Draba verna agg. there are three native Austrian species: besides the one shown here also D. boerhaavii and D. praecox.
Tahoe draba, Draba asterophora, Slide Mountain, Sierra Nevada, Carson Range, Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest, elevation 2690 m (8830 ft). Substrate is rocky granitic colluvium. Also visible are needles of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana).This rare plant is known only from the Mount Rose and Slide Mountain areas of the northern Carson Range in extreme western Nevada, in and just outside of the Lake Tahoe drainage basin. The diploid progenitor of this autotetraploid species survives in a separate population at the south end of the Carson Range in the Heavenly Mountain and Freel Peak areas on either side of the California-Nevada border. An auto-octoploid named var. macrocarpa comprises a third isolated population in the Cup Lake area of California.