Erysimum occidentale |
Erysimum concinnum |
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pale wallflower |
coast wallflower, curly wallflower, Pacific wallflower |
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Habit | Plants biennial. | Plants biennial or short-lived perennial. |
Stems | 0.5–3(6.5) dm. |
0.4–5(7) dm. |
Basal leaves | often withered by fruiting, linear-oblanceolate, 2–11(15) cm × (1.5)2–6 mm; margins entire or very rarely denticulate. |
spatulate to oblanceolate, 2–11 × 0.4–2 cm; margins sinuate-dentate to coarsely dentate. |
Cauline leaves | margins upper entire, sessile. |
margins upper entire or denticulate, sessile. |
Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, 4–11(15) mm; narrower than fruits. |
fruiting pedicels ascending, 2–4(6) mm; narrower than fruits. |
Flowers | sepals linear-oblong, 8–13 mm; lateral pair saccate; petals obovate to broadly so, 14–22(25) × 3–7.5 mm; bright or pale yellow; claws 11–16 mm; tips rounded; median filaments 10–14 mm; ovules 34–46 per ovary; styles slender; (2)2.5–5 mm, sparsely pubescent; stigmas entire. |
sepals oblong, 8–19 mm; lateral pair saccate; petals suborbicular to broadly obovate, 15–32 × 6–16 mm, yellow to cream; claws 8–12 mm; petal tips rounded; median filaments 8–11 mm; ovules 42–68 per ovary; styles stout, 0.5–2.5 mm, sparsely pubescent; stigmas 2-lobed. |
Fruits | strongly latiseptate, not torulose, 3–12 cm × (2)2.4–3.7 mm; valves with prominent midveins, pubescent outside with 2- and 3-rayed trichomes, glabrous inside. |
terete when young, becoming strongly latiseptate, not torulose; (3)5–13 cm × 2.2–5 mm; valves with obscure midveins, pubescent outside with 2–5-rayed trichomes, glabrous inside. |
Seeds | ovoid; (2)2.5–3.5 × 1.3–2.5 mm, 0.3–0.8 mm wide at distal end, winged. |
broadly ovate to suborbicular; (1.5)2–4 × 1.5–3 mm; wings continuous. |
Trichomes | 2–3-rayed. |
2–3(7)-rayed. |
2n | =36. |
=36. |
Erysimum occidentale |
Erysimum concinnum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sand deposits. Flowering Mar–Jul. 0–900 m. Col. ID, WA. Native. The species is confined to sand deposits along or near the Columbia River and its tributaries. |
Dunes, coastal bluffs, prairies. Flowering Mar–Jun. 0–400 m. Est. CA. Native. The species is known only in Oregon from Curry County and in California from Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Marin counties. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 486 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 485 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Erysimum menziesii ssp. concinnum | |
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