Scientific Name: Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'
Common Name: Bowles Mauve wallflower
Family Name: Brassicaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Biennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Dentate
Flowers: Raceme, Purple, Mar-Apr-May-Jun
Fruit: Silique, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, most oblanceolate, 3-7cm long x 5-7mm wide, grayish green; raceme with many flowers ~2cm wide, 4 purplish petals. raceme