Definition of Draba verna

1. Noun. Annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules.

Exact synonyms: Shad-flower, Shadflower, Whitlow Grass
Generic synonyms: Draba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Draba Verna

Downs' analysis
Dowson
Doxbridge
Doyere's eminence
Doyle's operation
Doylean
Doyne's honeycomb choroidopathy
Dr
Dr.
Dr.DES.
Dr. J
Dr. Johnson
Dr. Seuss
Dr Jekyll
Draba verna
Drabkin's reagent
Dracaena draco
Dracaenaceae
Dracenaceae
Draco
Dracocephalum
Dracocephalum parviflorum
Draconist
Draconists
Dracula
Dracunculidae
Dracunculus lova
Dracunculus medinensis
Dracunculus oculi

Literary usage of Draba verna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Type Species about 175, mainly natives of the north temperate and arctic regions, a few in southern species : draba verna L. Flowers white. ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The case of draba verna L., is most interesting. As is well known, about two hundred distinct species, or at least kinds, of Draba have been distinguished ..."

3. The American Journal of Science, & C (1818)
"The grass looks quite green ; the draba verna ? is in blossom in the State-House garden, ... Viburnum prunifolium is budding. 27. draba verna ? is in ..."

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