Wallflower
Erysimum × cheiri (L.) Crantz
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 47 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Also called Aegean wallflower
Formerly Cheiranthus × cheiri, Cheiranthus × helveticus, Cheiranthus × intermedius, Cheiranthus × luteus, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, purple, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- German
- Goldlack
- Chinese
- 桂竹香
- Dutch
- Muurbloem, muurbloem
- Czech
- chejr vonný
- Finnish
- Kultalakka
- French
- giroflée des murailles
- Russian
- or Желтофиоль, or Желтушник Чери, Лакфиоль
- Swedish
- Gyllenlack
- Slovenian
- zlatenec, zlati šebenik
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Erysimum × cheiri (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.