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Annual to shrub; sap pungent, watery.
Leaf: generally simple, alternate; generally both basal, cauline; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: generally raceme, generally not bracted.
Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals 4, generally free; petals (0)4, forming a cross, generally white or yellow to purple; stamens generally 6 (2 or 4), 4 long, 2 short (3 pairs of unequal length); ovary 1, superior, generally 2-chambered with septum connecting 2 parietal placentas; style 1, stigma entire or 2-lobed.
Fruit: capsule, generally 2-valved, "silique" (length >= 3 × width) or "silicle" (length < 3 × width), dehiscent by 2 valves or indehiscent, cylindric or flat parallel or perpendicular to septum, segmented or not.
Seed: 1–many, in 1 or 2 rows per chamber, winged or wingless; embryo strongly curved.
± 330 genera, 3780 species: worldwide, especially temperate. [Al-Shehbaz et al. 2006 Plant Syst Evol 259:89–120] Highest diversity in Medit area, mtns of sw Asia, adjacent c Asia, w North America; some Brassica species are oil or vegetable crops; Arabidopsis thaliana used in experimental molecular biology; many species are ornamentals, weeds. Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desvaux in cultivation only. Aubrieta occasional waif in c NCoR, Carrichtera annua (L.) DC. in SCo, Iberis sempervirens L., Iberis umbellata L. in PR, Teesdalia coronopifolia (Bergeret) Thell., Teesdalia nudicaulis (L.) W.T. Aiton in s NCoRO, CCo. Cardaria, Coronopus moved to Lepidium; Caulostramina to Hesperidanthus; Guillenia to Caulanthus; Heterodraba to Athysanus; CA taxa of Lesquerella to Physaria; Malcolmia africana to Strigosella. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.

Key to Brassicaceae

Annual to subshrub [ shrub]; hairs sessile, appressed, 2–5(8)-rayed.
Leaf: basal rosetted, petioled, entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed; cauline sessile or petioled, bases not lobed.
Inflorescence: elongated.
Flower: sepals oblong to linear, erect, base of lateral pair sac-like or not; petals clawed, yellow or orange (white, purple, or brown).
Fruit: silique, dehiscent, linear, cylindric, 4-sided, or flat parallel or perpendicular to septum, unsegmented; stigma entire or 2-lobed.
Seed: 15–100, in 1 or 2 rows, plump or flattened, oblong, winged or not.
± 150 species: North America, Eurasia, n Africa. (Greek: to help or save, from alleged medicinal properties of some species) [Rossbach 1958 Madroño 14:261–267] Fls, fruit, basal leaves needed for identification. All native CA taxa related to Erysimum capitatum; hybridization blurs limits of some species
Unabridged references: [Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of continental North America. Stanford Univ Press.]

Biennial or short-lived perennial herb.
Stem: (0.5)1.2–10(12) dm.
Leaf: 0.3–1.5(3) cm wide, linear to spoon-shaped or oblanceolate, flat, entire or dentate, hairs 2–4(7)-rayed; distal cauline sessile or short-petioled, entire or dentate.
Flower: sepals 7–14 mm; petals 12–25(30) mm, (5)6–10(13) mm wide, orange to yellow (lavender to ± purple), claw 8–16 mm.
Fruit: 3.5–11(15) cm, 1.3–3.3 mm wide, 4-angled or flat parallel to septum, not constricted between seeds; valves outside with 2–5-rayed hairs, inside glabrous, midvein distinct; style 0.2–2.5(3) mm; pedicels spreading to ascending, 4–17(25) mm.
Seed: (40)54–82, 1.5–4 mm, oblong, tip winged or 0.
2n=36. Highly variable, most widespread sp. in CA, of diverse habitats. Occ divided into several infraspecific taxa based on overlapping leaf characters. [Online Interchange]
Unabridged note: Expanded author citation: Erysimum capitatum (Douglas ex Hook.) Greene

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.