Nederlands: Vroegeling
Español: Pan y quesillo - Pan y quesito - Yerbecilla temprana
Français: Drave printanière
Deutsch: Frühlings-Hungerblümchen
Family: Brassicaceae - Cabbage family
Flowering time: February-July
Height: 3-15 cm
Altitude: to 1950m
Colour: white, pinkish
Fuit: narrow-elliptical six to ten mm, hairless, on long stalks
Leaves: clustered at the base, lanceolate to elliptical, toothed
Habitat: rocky open places, lawns, pastures, roadsides, cultivated fields, waste ground, walls
Distribution: almost all European countries
Synonym: Draba verna
Notes: Whitlow Grass is a variable, low, slightly hairy annual, sometimes overwintering. It is occasionally pollinated by small insects, but normally the flowers are self-pollinated. Basal rosette of Erophila verna is visible in winter. Flowers have four deeply cleft white petals and are borne on a leafless stem.
Related key words: Midden Delfland, Rotterdam (Hoek van Holland)
