Draba gilliesii

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Draba gilliesii, photographed by aacocucci — fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-28 / obs. 110125546

Draba gilliesii, photographed by Erasmo Macaya Horta — fig. b Erasmo Macaya Horta, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111807883

Draba gilliesii, photographed by Matt Berger — fig. d Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57980862

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000485053
Filed as: Draba gilliesii Hook. & Arn.
Det. by: Schulz, O.E.
Collected: Cuming
Origin: not recorded
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Draba gilliesii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northwest	AGW	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South	AGS
Chile Central	CLC
Chile South	CLS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Draba araucana Phil.
Draba azorellicola O.E.Schulz
Draba chubutensis Speg.
Draba colchaguensis Phil.
Draba davilae Phil.
Draba davilae Phil. ex Gilg
Draba gilliesii f. araucana O.E.Schulz
Draba gilliesii f. bagualensis O.E.Schulz
Draba gilliesii var. argentina O.E.Schulz
Draba gilliesii var. davilae (Phil.) O.E.Schulz
Draba gilliesii var. gilliesii
Draba gilliesii var. glabrata (Gilg) O.E.Schulz
Draba gilliesii var. rosulada (Phil.) Reiche
Draba gilliesii var. rosulata Reiche
Draba gilliesii var. stolonifera (Barnéoud) Reiche
Draba magellanica var. glabrata Gilg & Speg.
Draba magellanica var. glabrata Gilg
Draba rosulata Phil.
Draba rosulata Phil. ex Gilg
Draba stolonifera Barnéoud

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.