Caulanthus cooperi

Caulanthus cooperi
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Caulanthus
Species:	C. cooperi
Binomial name
Caulanthus cooperi (S.Watson) Payson [2]
Synonyms
Thelypodium cooperi S.Watson (basionym) [2]

Caulanthus cooperi is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common name Cooper's wild cabbage. It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it is a common plant in a number of open, sandy habitats. This annual herb produces a slender, somewhat twisted stem with widely lance-shaped to oblong leaves clasping it. The flower has a rounded or urn-shaped coat of pinkish or pale greenish sepals enclosing light yellow or pale purple petals. The fruit is a straight or curving silique several centimeters long.

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
2.  Treated by S. Watson as Thelypodium cooperi, this species was originally published in The Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 12: 246. 1877.; then later, treated as Caulanthus cooperi by Payson, in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 9(3): 293. 1922[1923]. "Name - Caulanthus cooperi (S.Watson) Payson". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden . Retrieved May 17, 2010.

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment of Caulanthus cooperi
• USDA Plants Profile
• Caulanthus cooperi — U.C. Photo gallery