European Wallflower is a biennial to perennial
herb, 1-3 ft tall, erect, hairy. Stem is often simple, somewhat
angular, rarely branched. Basal leaves are ina rosette rosulate, very
variable, elliptic-oblong to inverted-lanceshaped, stalked, 4-6 cm
long, 3-10 mm broad, sparsely toothed to nearly entire. Stem leaves are
similar to basal leaves or linear, stalkless, or nearly so. Flowers are
borne in 20-60-flowered racemes, up to 40 cm long in fruit. Flowers are
about 1 cm across, yellow. A related species
Himalayan Wallflower has larger
flowers. Flower-stalks are 6-10 mm long, ascending. Sepals are 5-6 mm
long. Petals 8-10 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, long-clawed. Stamens are 5-7
mm long, anthers about 2 mm long. Seed-pods are linear-round, erect,
3-6 cm long, 1.5 mm broad, appressedly hairy; valves with a distinct
mid-rib; style 0.5-1.5 mm long with capitate, bilobed stigma.
Flowering: May-July.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed along Govind Ghat - Ghangaria trail, Uttarakhand.
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