Streptanthus tortuosusKellogg

Mountain Jewelflower

WFO wfo-0001216813 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Streptanthus tortuosus, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 198425268

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Flowering n = 432 observations

Flowering observations of Streptanthus tortuosus by month
MonthObservations
Jan0
Feb1
Mar12
Apr43
May57
Jun138
Jul132
Aug31
Sep13
Oct4
Nov1
Dec0

Peak flowering in Jun, from 432 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Disaccanthus tortuosus (Kellogg) O.E.Schulz
  • Erysimum tortuosum Kuntze
  • Pleiocardia foliosa (Greene) Greene
  • Pleiocardia orbiculata Greene
  • Pleiocardia suffrutescens Greene
  • Pleiocardia tortuosa (Kellogg) Greene
  • Streptanthus foliosus Greene
  • Streptanthus orbiculatus Greene
  • Streptanthus sanhedrensis Eastw.
  • Streptanthus suffrutescens Greene
  • Streptanthus tortuosus var. flavescens Jeps.
  • Streptanthus tortuosus var. orbiculatus H.M.Hall
  • Streptanthus tortuosus var. pallidus Jeps.
  • Streptanthus tortuosus var. suffrutescens (Greene) Jeps.
  • Streptanthus tortuosus var. tortuosus Kellogg

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.