Draba incertaPayson

Yellowstone draba

WFO wfo-0000655516 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 incerta, photographed by Jon Ferreira
fig. a Jon Ferreira, CC0 1.0 / 2021-05-29 / obs. 132742291
Draba incerta, photographed by John Brew
fig. b John Brew, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2036816
Draba incerta, photographed by Jon Ferreira
fig. c Jon Ferreira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132742313
Draba incerta, photographed by Jon Ferreira
fig. d Jon Ferreira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132742337

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Draba incerta is native: Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Québec, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon AlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaColoradoIdahoMontanaNevadaOregonQuébecUtahWashingtonWyomingYukon
Native distribution of Draba incerta, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE
Québec QUE
Utah UTA
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK

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 5 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 exalata E.Ekman
  • Draba incerta var. incerta Payson
  • Draba incerta var. laevicapsula (Payson) Payson & H.St.John
  • Draba laevicapsula Payson
  • Draba peasei Fernald

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.