Descurainia paradisa

Descurainia paradisa is a plant species native to eastern and northern California, southeastern Oregon, Box Elder County in northwestern Utah, and most of Nevada. It grows in shrub communities at elevations of .Flora of North America v 7 p 526BONAP (Biota of North America Project), floristic synthesis, Descurainia paradisa

Descurainia paradisa is an annual herb up to tall. Stems are often purple, branching at the base and sometimes above ground. Leaves are up to long, pinnately lobed. Flowers are pale yellow, borne in a raceme. Fruits are egg-shaped, up to long.Schulz, Otto Eugen. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1924. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 105(Heft 86): 331Nelson, Aven & Kennedy, Patrick Beveridge. 1906. New Plants from the Great Basin. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 19(31): 155-157.photo of isotype of Descurainia paradisa at Missouri Botanical GardenHickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.Holmgren, N. H., P. K. Holmgren & A.J. Cronquist. 2005. Vascular plants of the intermountain west, U.S.A., subclass Dilleniidae. 2(B): 1–488. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.

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