Plant Name
Scientific Name: Dryopetalon runcinatum
Common Names: Rockmustard, Rock Mustard
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Biennial, Perennial
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert, Upland, Mountain. These cool weather wildflowers grow in moist, rocky canyons and on rocky hillsides in partly shaded locations under trees or next to large rocks.
Flower Color: White, Pale pinkish violet
Flowering Season: Winter (late), Spring
Height: To 2 feet (61 cm) tall
Description: The flowers are in terminal clusters. The individual flowers have 4, fringed petals, each with 4 to 9 lobes, giving them a fringed appearance. The flowers are followed by slender, elongated, upright seedpods. The leaves are green and deeply pinnately lobed or pinnately divided. The stems are green and leafy.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae – Mustard family
Genus: Dryopetalon A. Gray – dryopetalon
Species: Dryopetalon runcinatum A. Gray – rockmustard
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