Scientific Name: Erysimum cheiri
Common Name: English wallflower
Family Name: Brassicaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Biennial, Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Ground cover, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Entire, Serrate
Flowers: Raceme, Orange, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Apr-May
Fruit: Silique, Brown, Oct-Nov
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal and alternate, oblong-lanceolate, most blades 5-10(-20)cm long x 1-2cm wide; flowers 2-5cm wide, 4 petals, most yellow to orangish (reddish cvs.), arranged in racemes (corymb-like in some cvs), Apr-May; siliques 3-10cm long x 3-4mm wide.