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Island wallflower

Erysimum insulare

Island wallflower
Photo: Anthony Valois and the National Park Service, Public domain

Island wallflower is a perennial herb or subshrub from coastal bluffs and dunes of southern California and the Channel Islands, grown for its bright yellow flowers. It needs sun, sharp drainage and little water once established.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; overwatering causes rot.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-draining soil; tolerates poor, coastal soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild coastal conditions, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
California (N. Channel Is.), Guadalupe I.
Climate
subtropical

About

Erysimum insulare is a species of Erysimum known by the common name island wallflower. It is endemic to coast of southern California, including the Channel Islands. Erysimum insulare grows on coastal bluffs and sand dunes.

Other Erysimum plants

Coast wallflower · Cascade wallflower · Western wallflower · Erysimum baeticum · Cape Verde Wallflower · Erysimum canescens · Sanddune wallflower · Erysimum cazorlense · Wormseed wallflower · Wallflower · Erysimum collinum · Erysimum crepidifolium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erysimum insulare 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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