Biology:Caulanthus cooperi
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Caulanthus |
| Species: | C. cooperi
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| Binomial name | |
| Caulanthus cooperi (S.Watson) Payson[2]
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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
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.145237/Caulanthus_cooperi.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/4101179. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
External links
- Jepson Manual Treatment of Caulanthus cooperi
- USDA Plants Profile
- Caulanthus cooperi — U.C. Photo gallery
Wikidata ☰ Q5054474 entry
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