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Ladies Tongue Mustard

Athysanus unilateralis

Also called Ladiestongue Mustard

Athysanus unilateralis is a small annual wildflower in the cabbage family, native to southern Oregon, California and northern Baja California. Little cultivation information exists; it is grown mainly as a native wild plant.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it is adapted to dry, seasonal rainfall and dies back in summer.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool temperate conditions; frost-tolerant as a winter or spring annual.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Oregon to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
temperate

About

Athysanus unilateralis is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual native to southern Oregon, California, and northern Baja California.

In California it is native to the Central Valley, Cascade Range foothills, inner and outer southern Coast Ranges, southern Sierra foothills, and Tehachapi Mountains.

Other Athysanus plants

Common sandweed · Sandweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Athysanus unilateralis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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