Erysimum franciscanum |
Erysimum suffrutescens |
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Franciscan wallflower, San Francisco wallflower |
island wallflower, suffrutescent wallflower |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs. | Perennials or subshrubs. |
Stems | erect, often branched distally, (woody at base), 0.6–5(–6) dm. |
ascending, proximal branches terminating in sterile rosettes, (woody at base), 1.5–8.1 dm. |
Basal leaves | (often withered in suffrutescent plants); blade oblanceolate to oblanceolate-linear, 2.5–17 cm × (2–)3–16(–20) mm, base attenuate, margins sinuate-dentate or dentate, apex acute. |
blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 3.7–15 cm × 1.5–6(–7) mm, base attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely sparsely denticulate, apex acute. |
Cauline leaves | (distal) petiolate; blade margins usually dentate, rarely denticulate. |
(distal) sessile; blade similar to basal. |
Racemes | considerably elongated in fruit. |
considerably elongated in fruit. |
Flowers | sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 8–12(–15) mm, lateral pair saccate basally; petals yellow to cream, obovate to suborbicular, 14–29 × 5–12(–15) mm, claw 9–17 mm, apex rounded; median filaments 9–15 mm; anthers linear, 2.5–4 mm. |
sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 6–11 mm, lateral pair saccate basally; petals yellow, obovate to suborbicular, (11–)14–20(–22) × (3–)4–11.5 mm, claw 8–13 mm, apex rounded; median filaments 7–11 mm; anthers linear, 2.5–4 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate to ascending, stout, narrower than fruit, 5–17(–22) mm. |
ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, (3–)5–10 mm. |
Fruits | usually ascending, rarely spreading, narrowly linear, straight or curved upward, not or, rarely, slightly torulose, (3.8–)4–11(–14) cm × 2–4 mm, latiseptate, not striped; valves with somewhat prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes (2 or) 3 (or 4)-rayed, glabrous inside; ovules 32–64 per ovary; style cylindrical, slender, 0.5–3.5 mm, sparsely pubescent; stigma 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide. |
ascending to spreading, narrowly linear, straight or only slightly curved inward, not torulose, (2–)3–8.4(–11) cm × 1.5–2.4(–3.5) mm, 4-angled to only slightly latiseptate, not striped; valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2–4-rayed, glabrous inside; ovules 48–82 per ovary; style cylindrical, stout, 0.5–4 mm, sparsely pubescent; stigma slightly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide. |
Seeds | oblong, 2–3.5(–4) × 1.2–2.2(–2.5) mm; wing distal, present on 1 or both margins. |
oblong, 1.5–2.5(–3) × (0.7–)1–1.2(–1.4) mm; not winged or winged apically. |
Trichomes | of leaves 2-rayed mixed with 3(–5)-rayed ones. |
of leaves 2-rayed, sometimes mixed with 3- or 4-rayed ones. |
2n | = 36. |
= 36. |
Erysimum franciscanum |
Erysimum suffrutescens |
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Phenology | Flowering Jan–Apr. | Flowering Dec–Aug. |
Habitat | Serpentine outcrops, coastal scrub or sand dunes, granitic hillsides | Stabilized coastal sand dunes, coastal scrub vegetation |
Elevation | 0-500 m (0-1600 ft) | 0-150 m (0-500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Erysimum franciscanum is known from Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz counties. Historical records indicate that it grew previously in Sonoma County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erysimum suffrutescens is restricted to the coastal regions of Los Angeles County northward into San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. Both G. B. Rossbach (1958, 1958b) and R. C. Rollins (1993) treated it as a distinct species, but R. A. Price (1993) transferred it (invalidly) to a subspecies of E. insulare. The latter species has angustiseptate (versus 4-angled to slightly latiseptate) fruits, and the two are sufficiently distinct to be recognized as independent species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 540. | FNA vol. 7, p. 544. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Erysimeae > Erysimum | Brassicaceae > tribe Erysimeae > Erysimum |
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Synonyms | E. franciscanum var. crassifolium | Cheiranthus suffrutescens, E. concinnum subsp. suffrutescens, E. suffrutescens var. grandifolium |
Name authority | Rossbach: Aliso 4: 118. (1958) | (Abrams) Rossbach: Aliso 4: 121. (1958) |
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