Bushy Wallflower

Common Name: Bushy Wallflower

Other Names: Spreading Wallflower, Spreading Wormseed

Species Name: Erysimum repandum L.

Plant Type: Broadleafs, Herbaceous

Family Name: Brassicaceae

Plant Facts
Origin	Native
Duration	Annual
Season	Cool
Distribution in the U.S.	Primarily in the central and southern Great Plains (NE, SD, KS, OK, TX, IA, MO, MT, WY, CO, NM).
Distribution in Oklahoma	Throughout the state

ID Characteristics

Field Identification Characteristics
- Flowers: Pale yellow or sulphur yellow (rarely greenish-yellow) corolla; petals 4 (5-11 millimeters long); sepals 4 (4-5.5 millimeters long), densely hairy, hairs stellate
- Inflorescence: Raceme, elongating in fruit, flowers often spreading at right angles to the rachis (central stem)
- Narrow leaves with smooth edges
Leaf and Stem Characteristics
- Leaf Type: Simple
- Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
- Leaf Shape: Linear to linear oblanceolate, upper blades triangular at the base, margins unevenly dentate to even, surfaces thinly pubescent with 2 and 3 forked hairs
- Stipules: Absent
- Stems: Erect to ascending, usually branched, surfaces pubescent with forked hairs
Floral Characteristics
- Petal Number: 4
- Flower Color: Pale yellow or sulphur yellow (rarely greenish yellow)
- Flower Timing: May-July
- Fruit Type: Silique (5-12 centimeters long, less than 1 millimeter in diameter), nearly round to 4 angled, appearing continuous with the pedicel, ascending to erect, smooth to pubescent; seeds several

Habitat/Ecology
Soil Type	Varying
Habitat	In cultivated fields (especially in winter wheat and fallow fields), alfalfa, roadsides, waste places and occasionally in pastures and rangeland
Successional Stage

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