Plant Name
Scientific Name: Schoenocrambe linearifolia
Synonyms: Hesperidanthus linearifolius, Sisymbrium linearifolium, Thelypodiopsis linearifolia
Common Names: Slimleaf Plainsmustard, Slimleaf Plains Mustard, Pink Windmills
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Subshrub, Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert (upper elevation), Upland, Mountain
Flower Color: Lavender, Purplish pink
Flowering Season: Spring, Summer, Fall
Height: To 4 feet (1.2 m) tall
Description: The windmill-like flowers are 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and have four spoon-shaped petals with darker colored veins. The flowers are followed by long, slender, upright seedpods. The leaves are gray-green and narrowly linear to narrowly lanceolate. The plants are tall and slender.
The similar Night Scented Stock (Matthiola longipetala) has nocturnal, fragrant flowers, broader leaves, and horned siliques (seed capsules), while Matthiola parviflora also has horned siliques, and Crossflower (Chorispora tenella) has unpleasant-smelling, glandular-hairy foliage.
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: Schoenocrambe Greene – plainsmustard
Species: Schoenocrambe linearifolia (A. Gray) Rollins – slimleaf plainsmustard
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