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Thysanocarpus radians
Thysanocarpus radians, ribbed fringepod, is a small annual wildflower of the cabbage family native to moist meadows and hillsides in northern and central California and Oregon. Grow it as a cool-season annual in moist, well-drained soil in full sun.
Thysanocarpus radians is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common name ribbed fringepod. The plant is also colloquially known as spokepod because of its seedpods’ characteristic resemblance to tire spokes. It is native to northern and central California and Oregon, where it grows in moist meadows, fields, hillsides, and other habitat. It is an annual herb growing up to 50 or 60 centimeters tall. The leaves are wavy-edged or lobed, the basal ones up to 5 centimeters long and ephemeral, and the upper ones with bases clasping the stem. The inflorescence is a long, open raceme of small whitish or purplish flowers. The fruit is a flattened, rounded, disclike capsule which hangs from its pedicel. It measures up to a centimeter long and is hairless to quite hairy in texture.
Santa Cruz Island fringepod · Sand fringepod · Mountain fringepod · Fringepod
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanocarpus radians 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.
