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pale wallflower, western wallflower

Habit Biennials.
Stems

erect, often branched distally, 0.5–3(–6.5) dm.

Basal leaves

(often withered by fruiting);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 2–11(–15) cm × (1.5–)2–6 mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate.

Cauline leaves

(distal) sessile;

blade margins entire.

Racemes

(simple or branched), considerably elongated in fruit.

Flowers

sepals linear-oblong, 8–13 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals bright or pale yellow, obovate to broadly so, 14–22(–25) × 3–7.5 mm, claw 11–16 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 10–14 mm;

anthers linear, 3–4 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, 4–11(–15) mm.

Fruits

ascending, narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 3–12 cm × (2–)2.4–3.7 mm, strongly latiseptate, not striped;

valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2- and 3-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 34–46 per ovary;

style cylindrical, slender, (2–)2.5–5 mm, sparsely pubescent;

stigma entire.

Seeds

ovoid, (2–)2.5–3.5 × 1.3–2.5 mm;

wing continuous distally, (0.3–0.8 mm wide).

Trichomes

of leaves 2- or 3-rayed.

2n

= 36.

Erysimum occidentale

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sand deposits
Elevation 50-700 m (200-2300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR; WA
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Discussion

Erysimum occidentale is restricted to sand deposits along or near the Columbia River and its tributaries. It is distributed in Gilliam, Hood River, Morrow, Sherman, and Umatilla counties in Oregon, and in Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Walla Walla, and Yakima counties in Washington.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 543.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Erysimeae > Erysimum
Sibling taxa
E. ammophilum, E. arenicola, E. asperum, E. capitatum, E. cheiranthoides, E. cheiri, E. coarctatum, E. concinnum, E. franciscanum, E. hieraciifolium, E. inconspicuum, E. insulare, E. menziesii, E. pallasii, E. perenne, E. repandum, E. suffrutescens, E. teretifolium
Synonyms Cheiranthus occidentalis, Cheirinia occidentalis
Name authority (S. Watson) B. L. Robinson: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1,1): 144. (1895)
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