whitlow grass

whitlow grass

n (Plants) any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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whitlow grass - annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsulesDraba verna, shadflower, shad-flowerdraba - any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique