Need identfication of a plant in our yard..

 

Which plant is this? I never planted it, and somehow, its seeds took
root in our yard. It's gorgeous!

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On 6/2/2010 7:37 PM, BeTu wrote:

That's orange tuberose milkweed, butterflies should be all over it, too.

Susan

 

writes

Actually it isn't. The photographs show a plant with tetramerous flowers
without prominent sepals in a racemose inflorescence, while Asclepias
tuberosa has pentamerous flowers with prominent sepals grouped into
umbels.

I think that it's Cheiranthus cheiri (wallflower) aka Erysimum cheiri,
but it might be one of the other Erysimums.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

 

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On 6/2/2010 8:29 PM, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:


You could be right.

Susan