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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Caulanthus major
|accepted_authority=(M. E. Jones) Payson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=9: 291. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Caulanthus crassicaulis var. major
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser.
|publication_place=2, 5: 623. 1895
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Caulanthus major var. nevadensis
|authority=Rollins
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Streptanthus major
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae;Caulanthus;Caulanthus major
|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 major]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 678
|treatment_page=page 684
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Perennials; glabrous (or petioles and sepals pubescent). <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, unbranched or branched distally, (hollow, sometimes slightly inflated), 2–10 dm. <b>Basal</b> leaves rosulate; petiole 0.5–9 cm; blade obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic (in outline), 1–14 cm × 5–25 mm, margins entire, dentate-sinuate, lyrate, or pinnatifid-runcinate. <b>Cauline</b> leaves (distalmost) shortly petiolate; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, margins entire. <b>Racemes</b> (densely flowered), without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels ascending, 1–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, (creamy white or purple), ovate to lanceolate, 6.5–9.5 × 2.7–4 mm, (equal, pubescent); petals purple, 11–17 mm, blade 4–7 × 1–1.7 mm, not or hardly crisped, claw oblanceolate, 7–13 × 2.5–3.5 mm; filaments tetradynamous, median pairs 5–7 mm, lateral pair 4–6 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 4–6 mm. <b>Fruits</b> erect to ascending, terete or slightly latiseptate, 4.5–12 cm × 2.2–2.8 mm; valves each with obscure midvein; ovules 46–58 per ovary; style obsolete or, rarely, to 0.4 mm; stigma slightly 2-lobed (lobes opposite valves). <b>Seeds</b> 2–3.5 × 1.3–1.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Margin of montane forests, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1500-3200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Caulanthus major</i> is found in eastern and southern California, <i>Nevada</i>, southeastern Oregon, and Utah.</p>
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name=Caulanthus major
|authority=(M. E. Jones) Payson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Caulanthus major var. nevadensis;Streptanthus major
|basionyms=Caulanthus crassicaulis var. major
|family=Brassicaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Margin of montane forests, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1500-3200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1923
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1176.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Thelypodieae
|genus=Caulanthus
|species=Caulanthus major
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