Draba aprica Beadle in Small, Fl. SE U.S., ed. 2, 1336. 1913. TYPE: U.S.A. Georgia. Kenesaw Mt., near Marietta, 9 May 1901, Biltmore Herbarium (holotype, NY!).

Draba brachycarpa Nuttall var. fastigiata Nuttall in Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 108. 1838. TYPE: U.S.A. Arkansas, Nuttall s.n. (holotype, BM!; isotype, K!).

     Herbs annual. Stems (3–)7–30(–36) cm, unbranched or occasionally few branched about base, usually branched above, pubescent throughout with short-stalked to subsessile, cruciform trichomes 0.1–0.5 mm. Basal leaves not rosulate, obovate to spatulate or ovate to suborbicular, 6–25 × 3–10 mm, entire or rarely few toothed; both surfaces pubescent with stalked, cruciform trichomes 0.1–0.5 mm; petiole to 10 mm; cauline leaves of flowering stems (5–)8–20(–25), oblong to lanceolate, entire, sessile, not ciliate, pubescent as basal leaves. Racemes ebracteate, main branch 7–46-flowered, elongated, lateral racemes from axils of uppermost leaves, subumbellate; rachis pubescent as stem, not flexuous; lowermost fruiting pedicels 2–5 mm, horizontal to divaricate-ascending, straight, pubescent with subsessile, 4-rayed trichomes. Flowers: late flowers cleistogamous, apetalous; sepals oblong, 0.6–1.2 mm, pubescent; petals white, spatulate, 1.3–2.5 × 0.5–1 mm; anthers ovate, 0.1–0.2 mm, to 0.05 in cleistogamous flowers. Fruits linear-ellipsoid to ellipsoid, (3–)4–6 × 0.8–1.1 mm, flattened, not twisted, pubescent with subsessile, (2–)4-rayed trichomes 0.03–0.12 mm; style 0.07–0.13 mm; ovules and seeds 4–6(–8) per fruit. Seeds ovoid, flattened, 0.9–1.1 × 0.5–0.6 mm, wingless.

Flowering: Mar–May.

Habitat: open knolls, rocky roadsides, rock outcrops, igneous glades, woods, and alluvial areas near streams.

Elevation: 100–350 m.

Distribution: United States (Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina).