Streptanthus

Streptanthus is a genus of plants within the family Brassicaceae.[1] There are about 35 known species within the genus Streptanthus, distributed mostly throughout western North America.[2] The common names for this genus are twistflower[3] and jewelflower. Twenty-four of the species and eleven lesser taxa occur in California, thirty-two of which are California endemics; seventeen of these California taxa are classified as rare plants.

Streptanthus
Streptanthus cordatus, southern Nevada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Streptanthus
Nutt.
Species

About 40, see text

Species or subspecies

The following are some of the species (or subspecies) of the genus Streptanthus (county locations are not intended to be exhaustive):

References

  1. Kruckeberg & Morrison 1983 Madroño 30:230–244
  2. Flora of North America: Streptanthus
  3. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Streptanthus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. Andy Kratter, Summary of Rare Plant Search along the Western California University Access Road Alignment, Los Gatos, County of Santa Clara, California, prepared for City of Los Gatos and State of California Environmental Clearinghouse, Earth Metrics Inc. Report 7965.W0, May, 1989
  5. David Rogers, The Double Cone Register, Vol IX, no. 1, Spring, 2006


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