Western Wallflower

Erysimum capitatum Western wallflower, also known as prairie rocket, Douglas wallflower or sand dune wallflower, is one plant that doesn’t live up to its name - in the best way possible! Anything but a wallflower, this lightly-fragrant beauty will add vibrant color to dry, sunny areas of your habitat garden. Since there are several naturally-occurring variants and conditions you might grow it in, visual characteristics such as height and flower color can vary widely. Generally, the long, narrow leaves are deep green, growing as a basal rosette. From late spring to midsummer, flower spires shoot up above the foliage and are blanketed in dense bunches of prolonged four-petaled blooms. And girl, nature turned the color saturation filter UP on this one, with vibrant golden hues that are typically tangerine but can vary from tones of yellow to red. Flowers are highly attractive to native pollinators like bees and butterflies and the overall plant is a host to several species of butterfly an