Common Name: MUSTARD FAMILY Habit: 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. Genera In Family: +- 330 genera, 3780 species: worldwide, especially temperate. Note: Highest diversity in Mediterranean area, mountains of southwestern Asia, adjacent central Asia, western 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 central 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 southern NCoRO, CCo. Cardaria, Coronopus moved to Lepidium; Caulostramina to Hesperidanthus; Guillenia to Caulanthus; Heterodraba to Athysanus; California taxa of Lesquerella to Physaria; Malcolmia africana to Strigosella. eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: JEWELFLOWER Habit: Annual to perennial herb, glabrous or hairs simple (forked). Leaf: basal rosetted or not, petioled, entire, dentate or pinnately lobed, generally deciduous; cauline petioled, or sessile with bases lobed or sagittate. Inflorescence: elongated. Flower: calyx urn-shaped or cylindric, sepals erect (spreading), base sac-like or not; petals yellow, purple, brown, or white, generally channeled, margin wavy or not; stamens in 3 pairs of equal length, or 4 long and 2 short, (all equal), free or filaments of longer pair(s) fused. Fruit: silique, linear, dehiscent, unsegmented, +- sessile, cylindric (flat perpendicular or parallel to septum); stigma entire or 2-lobed. Seed: 24--210, 1 row per chamber, oblong to ovate (+- spheric), plump, wing 0. Etymology: (Greek: stem flower, in reference to insertion of flowers along stem) eFlora Treatment Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Caulanthus flavescens (Hook.) Payson
NATIVE Habit: Annual, glabrous or sparsely to densely stiff-hairy. Stem: erect, 7--12 dm, simple or branched distally. Leaf: basal lyre-shaped to pinnately lobed, early-deciduous; proximal cauline, petioled, 2--13.5 cm, lanceolate to oblong or oblanceolate; distal sessile. Inflorescence: terminal sterile flower cluster 0. Flower: sepals spreading to erect, 6--9 mm, cream to pale yellow or purple; petals 7--13 mm, channeled, wavy-margined, white or cream (+- pink); stamens 4 long, 2 short. Fruit: ascending to reflexed, 3.8--7.7 cm, 1.4--2 mm; style 1--3.5 mm, stigma +- entire; pedicel ascending to strongly reflexed, 4.5--8 mm. Seed: 44--58, 1.3--1.8 mm, oblong. Chromosomes: 2n=28. Ecology: Dry, exposed slopes, open hillsides, vertic clay, often serpentine; Elevation: 80--750 m. Bioregional Distribution: s NCoRI, ScV (Montezuma Hills), se SnFrB, SCoRI. Flowering Time: Mar--May Synonyms: Guillenia flavescens (Hook.) Greene; Streptanthus flavescens Hook.; Thelypodium flavescens (Hook.) S. Watson Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Caulanthus crassicaulis Next taxon: Caulanthus glaucus
Botanical illustration including Caulanthus flavescens
Citation for this treatment: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz 2012, Caulanthus flavescens, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=18399, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Caulanthus flavescens:
s NCoRI, ScV (Montezuma Hills), se SnFrB, SCoRI.
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