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Erysimum menziesii
Also called Menzies's Wallflower
Menzies' wallflower is a rare, endangered mustard-family herb native only to coastal sand dunes in northern and central California, usually kept as a specialist plant rather than a garden staple. Its key to growing is mimicking open, sandy, free-draining dune conditions.
Erysimum menziesii is a species of Erysimum known by the common name Menzies' wallflower.
This rare plant is endemic to California. It is found only in the declining beach sand dune habitat in three areas on the California coastline, in Humboldt, Mendocino, and Monterey Counties. It is listed as an endangered species on the California state and federal levels. There are three to four subspecies depending on the authority, and each is rare.
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 menziesii 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.
