Draba aizoides is a perennial plant, with a basal rosette of linear, stiff, entire leaves fringed with white bristles.

The erect hairless and leafless stems grow to 10 centimetres (4 in), or exceptionally to 15 cm (6 in), and carry a small number of yellow flowers.

[1][2] Draba aizoides has a wide distribution in the mountains of southern and central Europe, from the Pyrenees in the west, through the Alps to the Carpathians.

[3] It also has a number of isolated occurrences, including the Vosges, Jura, Cévennes, Auvergne, Côte d'Or, Plateau de Langres and the Belgian Ardennes.

[4] It is a lowland species and grows in pockets of soil in damp cracks and crevices in limestone rocks.