Caulanthus cooperi

Caulanthus cooperi
Cooper's wild cabbage
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Caulanthus
Species: C. cooperi
Binomial name
Caulanthus cooperi
(S.Watson) Payson[1]
Synonyms

Thelypodium cooperi S.Watson
(basionym)[1]

Caulanthus cooperi is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name Cooper's wild cabbage. It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it is a common plant in a number of open, sandy habitats. This annual herb produces a slender, somewhat twisted stem with widely lance-shaped to oblong leaves clasping it. The flower has a rounded or urn-shaped coat of pinkish or pale greenish sepals enclosing light yellow or pale purple petals. The fruit is a straight or curving silique several centimeters long.

References

  1. ^ a b  Treated by S. Watson as Thelypodium cooperi, this species was originally published in The Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 12: 246. 1877.; then later, treated as Caulanthus cooperi by Payson, in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 9(3): 293. 1922[1923]. "Name - Caulanthus cooperi (S.Watson) Payson". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/4101179. Retrieved May 17, 2010. 

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