Taxon: Erysimum cheiri (L.) Crantz

Common names:

• giroflée   (Source: Flower Oils )
  
• Goldlack   (Source: Flower Oils )
  
• revenelle   (Source: HerbSpices as Cheiranthus cheiri)
  
• violacciocca   (Source: HerbSpices as Cheiranthus cheiri)
  
• wallflower   (Source: Dict Gard )
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Eur ed2; Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (though seldom used fide Dict Econ Pl, as Cheiranthus cheiri; HerbSpices, as Cheiranthus cheiri)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized, probably arose via artifical hybridization in Greece

References:

• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices) [= Cheiranthus cheiri].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14) [= Cheiranthus cheiri L.].
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. (Flower Oils)
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
• Polatschek, A. 1979. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 82:330.
• Polatschek, A. 1994. Phyton (Horn) 34:191.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Erysimum cheiri.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Erysimum cheiri. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cheiranthus cheiri L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other databases for Erysimum cheiri (L.) Crantz:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

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