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Icarian Treacle Mustard

Erysimum scoparium

Icarian Treacle Mustard
Photo: Peter coxhead, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Canary Is. (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, NC. La Palma)
Climate
subtropical

About

Erysimum scoparium is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Canary Islands. It is a shrubby species of wallflower with purplish flowers found at high altitudes.

Where it grows

Erysimum scoparium is endemic to the Canary Islands. It is found in montane zones in Tenerife, up to altitudes of 1600–2200 m in Las Cañadas, and 300–500 m in the Valle del Santiado del Teide (subsp. cinereum). It is also found in mountainous regions of La Palma. When E. albescens is included in E. scoparium, the latter's distribution extends to Gran Canaria, where it is found in dry habitats and pine forest at elevations of 1400–1800 m.

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 scoparium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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