Erysimum teretifolium Eastw.

Santa cruz wallflower (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Erysimum

Characteristics

Biennials or perennials; (short-lived, caudex often woody). Trichomes of leaves 2-rayed, mixed with 3-rayed ones. Stems erect, unbranched, (1.4-)2.5-8(-10) dm. Basal leaves: blade filiform to narrowly linear, 5-17 cm × 0.4-3 mm, (somewhat revolute, appearing terete), base attenuate, margins denticulate, apex subacuminate. Cauline leaves sessile; blade margins entire or remotely denticulate. Racemes considerably elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels divaricate to ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, 5-14 mm. Flowers: sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 7-11 mm, lateral pair saccate basally; petals orange-yellow to yellow, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 15-20(-25) × 5-10 mm, claw 6-13 mm, apex rounded; median filaments 7-14 mm; anthers linear, 2.3-3.5 mm. Fruits widely spreading to ascending, narrowly linear, curved or slightly twisted, somewhat torulose, (4-) 7-12(-15) cm × 1.2-2.2(-2.5) mm, slightly latiseptate, not striped; valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2 and 3 (or 4)-rayed, glabrous inside; ovules 40-72 per ovary; style cylindrical, slender, 0.5-2 (-2.5) mm, sparsely pubescent; stigma subentire to slightly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide. Seeds ovoid, 1.5-2.3(-2.7) × 0.9-1.5 mm; wing appendage-like, distal. 2n = 36.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.8
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Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-6
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Distribution

Erysimum teretifolium world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:307179-2
WFO ID wfo-0000679266
COL ID 3BBTB
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Synonyms

Erysimum filifolium Erysimum teretifolium