Tomostima reptans
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Tomostima |
| Species: | T. reptans
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| Binomial name | |
| Tomostima reptans (Lam.) Al-Shehbaz, M.Koch & Jordon-Thaden
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tomostima reptans (synonym Draba reptans), common names Carolina draba, Carolina whitlow-grass, Creeping whitlow-grass, and Whitlow-grass, is an annual plant in the family Brassicaceae that is native to temperate North America.[2]
It is native to most of the contiguous United States, except for Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and northern New England; to Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia in Canada; and to northwestern Mexico.[1]
Conservation status in the United States
[edit]It is listed as a special concern in Connecticut,[3] as threatened in Michigan, New York, and Ohio, as endangered in New Jersey, as extirpated in Pennsylvania, and as historical in Rhode Island.[4]
Native American ethnobotany
[edit]The Ramah Navajo apply a poultice of the crushed leaves of the plant to sores.[5]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was first described as Arabis reptans by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1783. In 1934 Merritt Lyndon Fernald placed the species in genus Draba as D. reptans. In 2012 Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Marcus Koch, and I. Jordon-Thaden placed it in genus Tomostima as T. reptans.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Tomostima reptans (Lam.) Al-Shehbaz, M.Koch & Jordon-Thaden". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
- ^ "Plants Profile for Draba reptans (Carolina draba)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
- ^ "Plants Profile for Draba reptans (Carolina draba)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 28
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