Latin name: Tropidocarpum gracile Hook.
  Pronunciation: tro-pid-o-KAR-pum GRAS-il-ee

  Common name: Dobiepod
  Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard)
  Habitat: Dry grassy slopes and open places, sandy
  areas to 3500', valley grassland, southern oak woodland,
  joshua tree woodland, cismontane southern California
  and western Mojave Desert

  Blooming period: March to May
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Tropidocarpum
  2) gracile
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