View source for Caulanthus flavescens

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|accepted_name=Caulanthus flavescens
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Payson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=9: 301. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Streptanthus flavescens
|authority=Hooker
|publication_title=Icon. Pl.
|publication_place=1: plate 44. 1837
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Caulanthus procerus
|authority=(Brewer ex A. Gray) S. Watson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Guillenia flavescens
|authority=(Hooker) Greene
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Guillenia hookeri
|authority=(Greene) Greene
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Streptanthus dudleyi
|authority=Eastwood
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Streptanthus lilacinus
|authority=Hoover
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Streptanthus procerus
|authority=Brewer ex A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thelypodium flavescens
|authority=S. Watson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thelypodium greenei
|authority=Jepson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thelypodium hookeri
|authority=Greene
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae;Caulanthus;Caulanthus flavescens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Caulanthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Caulanthus flavescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 677, 678, 682
|treatment_page=page 681
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Annuals; (not glaucous), glabrous or sparsely to moderately hirsute. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched or branched distally, 1.7–12 dm, usually hirsute basally. <b>Basal</b> leaves soon withered; blade lyrate, margins sinuate-pinnatifid. <b>Cauline</b> leaves petiolate (median 0.3–2 cm) or (distal) sessile; blade lanceolate to oblong or oblanceolate, 2–13.5 cm × 3–35 mm (smaller distally, base sometimes subauriculate), margins dentate. <b>Racemes</b> without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers, (considerably elongated in fruit). <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending to strongly reflexed, (slender or thickened), 4.5–8 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals usually erect, rarely ascending to spreading, oblong, 6–9 × 1.5–2 mm, (not saccate or urceolate); petals (erect), usually white to creamy white, rarely pinkish, (narrowly lanceolate), 7–13 mm, blade 3–5 × 1–1.5 mm, channeled, crisped, claw linear-oblanceolate, 4–8 × 1–1.7 mm; filaments tetradynamous, (erect), median pairs 5–7 mm, lateral pair 3–5 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Fruits</b> erect, (straight), terete, 3.8–7.7 cm × 1.4–2 mm; valves each with obscure midvein, (glabrous or sparsely pubescent); ovules 44–58 per ovary; style 1–3.5 mm; stigma subentire. <b>Seeds</b> (brown), 1.3–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Serpentine grounds, roadsides, gumbo clay slopes, open hillsides, grassy fields
|elevation=100-800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Caulanthus flavescens</i> is distributed primarily from Monterey and San Benito counties north to Napa and San Joaquin counties.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Caulanthus flavescens
|author=
|authority=(Hooker) Payson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Caulanthus procerus;Guillenia flavescens;Guillenia hookeri;Streptanthus dudleyi;Streptanthus lilacinus;Streptanthus procerus;Thelypodium flavescens;Thelypodium greenei;Thelypodium hookeri
|basionyms=Streptanthus flavescens
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Serpentine grounds, roadsides, gumbo clay slopes, open hillsides, grassy fields
|elevation=100-800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1923
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1169.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae
|genus=Caulanthus
|species=Caulanthus flavescens
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