Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Streptanthus > Streptanthus tortuosus

Streptanthus tortuosus (shieldleaf)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Streptanthus tortuosus is a biennial or short lived perennial plant in the Mustard Family (Brassicaceae) known by the common names shieldplant, shieldleaf, and mountain jewelflower.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Biennial/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Predators

Anthocharis sara (Sara orange-tip)[3]
Euchloe hyantis (Andrew's marble butterfly)[3]
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[3]
Pontia occidentalis (Western White)[3]
Pontia sisymbrii (California White)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0