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Erysimum inconspicuum

Erysimum asperum

prairie rocket, small-flowered rocket, small-flowered rocket rocket, small wallflower
Habit Grayish to greenish biennial from a simple crown, the stems simple or sparingly branched from the base, 2-10 dm. tall.
Leaves

Basal leaves numerous, entire to sharply dentate, highly variable in size, 3-10 cm. long and 2-10 mm. wide, slender-petiolate;

cauline leaves alternate, entire to denticulate or dentate, not much reduced upward.
Flowers

Flowers rather showy, in crowded, bractless racemes; pedicles stout, ascending, 8-13 mm. long;

sepals 4, the outer 2 saccate at the base;

petals 4, yellow to deep orange or somewhat reddish, 15-25 mm. long, long-clawed;

stamens 6;

style beaklike, 2-3.5 mm. long, stigma bi-lobed.
Fruits

Siliques ascending to erect, nearly straight, quadrangular, 3-10 cm. long and 1-1.5 mm. broad, the valves strongly nerved;

seeds in 1 series, nearly wingless.

Erysimum inconspicuum

Erysimum asperum
Flowering time June-July May-August
Habitat Rock outcroppings and roadsides where calcareous, also tolerant of alkaline soils. Often in sandy soil, from sagebrush desert plains to alpine meadows.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Oregon and Nevada, east across much of the U.S. and Canada to the Atlantic Coast.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the southern Great Plains, and the midwestern and mid-Atlantic U.S.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. arenicola, E. capitatum, E. cheiranthoides, E. cheiri, E. occidentale, E. repandum
E. arenicola, E. capitatum, E. cheiranthoides, E. cheiri, E. inconspicuum, E. occidentale, E. repandum
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