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| Life form: |
| Herbaceous annual |
| Stems: |
| Erect 15-100 cm tall, usually branched, medium green, terete, slightly angular, or shallowly grooved, puberulent; central stem terminates in a narrow raceme of flowers about ¼-1' long |
| Leaves: |
| Alternate, oblong-lanceolate , entire or widely serrate along the edge, covered with sparce hairs |
| Flowers: |
| Inflorescence is plain raceme; hermaphrodite, 4 yellow petals, twice as long as sepals |
| Flowering Period: |
| June, July, August, September |
| Fruits: |
| Capsule 1-3 cm long, oblong-linear, tetrahedral, bilocular, multi-seeded, with short beak, on slantwise-upward directed peduncles. |
| Habitat: |
| Throughout the country except in the mountain regions where it occurs more sparingly; farmland, settlements |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Erysimum, Greek eryomai, "to help or save," because some of the species supposedly had a medicinal value
cheiranthoides, resembling genus Cheiranthus, a genus of wallflowers.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
Erysimum cheiranthoides is cross-pollinated primarily by small bees and flies. Several beetles in the Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) feed on Erysimum cheiranthoides.
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