Japanese name: イヌナズナ（犬薺） Scientific name:Draba nemorosa
[Overview]
A biennial 5–60 cm tall, found in fields and along roadsides.
The whole plant is densely covered with simple hairs and stellate hairs.
A single stem rises up, sometimes branching at the base.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves are elliptic-obovate to oblanceolate, 1–3.5 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm wide, toothed, and stalkless.
The stem leaves are alternate and simple, ovate to elliptic, 0.5–3 cm long and 0.3–1 cm wide, toothed, and stalkless.
A raceme at the stem tip bears a few dozen yellow four-petaled flowers, 0.4 cm across, sparsely arranged.
The petals are obovate with a slightly notched tip.
The sepals are ovate with short hairs on the outside.
The fruit is a flat, oblong silicle 0.4–0.8 cm long, with simple hairs or hairless.
The seeds are very small, broadly elliptic, and reddish brown.
