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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. |