Erysimum repandum |
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bushy wallflower, repand wallflower, spreading wallflower, treacle mustard |
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Habit | Annuals. |
Stems | erect, unbranched or branched basally, (0.4–)1.5–4.5(–7) dm. |
Basal leaves | (often withered by fruiting), similar to cauline. |
Cauline leaves | (proximal and median) petiolate and (distal) sessile, (petiole (0.3–)0.5–2(–3) cm); blade [linear, narrowly oblanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, (1–)2–8(–11) cm × (2–)5–12(–17) mm, base attenuate], margins sinuate or coarsely dentate to denticulate or repand, (distal) entire or denticulate, (apex acute). |
Racemes | considerably elongated in fruit. |
Flowers | sepals linear-oblong, 4–6 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate to spatulate, 6–8 × 1.5–2 mm, claw 3–6 mm, apex rounded; median filaments 4–6 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.8–1.3 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate, stout, as wide as fruit, 2–4(–6) mm. |
Fruits | widely spreading to divaricate-ascending, narrowly linear, straight or curved upward, somewhat torulose, (2–)3–8(–10) cm × 1.5–2 mm, 4-angled, not striped; valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2-rayed and, fewer, 3-rayed, often glabrous, sometimes pubescent inside; ovules (40–)50–80(–90) per ovary; style cylindrical or subclavate, stout, 1–4 mm, sparsely pubescent; stigma slightly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide. |
Seeds | oblong, 1.1–1.5 × 0.6–0.7 mm; not winged or, rarely, winged distally. |
Trichomes | of leaves 2-rayed, mixed with fewer 3-rayed ones. |
2n | = 16. |
Erysimum repandum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites, roadsides, fields, waste places, barren hillsides, brush communities, pastures |
Elevation | 0-2100 m (0-6900 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OK; OR; PA; TN; TX; UT; VA; WA; WV; WY; BC; ON; QC; Eurasia; n Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, Australia]
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 544. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Erysimeae > Erysimum |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Cheirinia repanda |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Demonstr. Pl., 17. (1753) |
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