Descurainia paradisa

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Descurainia

|species = paradisa

|authority = (A.Nelson & P.B.Kenn.) O.E.Schulz

|synonyms = *Descurainia paradisa subsp. nevadensis Rollins

• Descurainia paradisa var. nevadensis (Rollins) N.H. Holmgren
• Descurainia pinnata subsp. paradisa (A. Nelson & P.B. Kenn.) Detling
• Descurainia pinnata var. paradisa (A. Nelson & P.B. Kenn.) M. Peck
• Sisymbrium paradisum (A. Nelson & P.B. Kenn.) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.
• Sophia paradisa A. Nelson & P.B. Kenn.

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50090811 Tropicos]

}}

Descurainia paradisa is a plant species native to eastern and northern California, southeastern Oregon, Box Elder County in northwestern Utah, and most of Nevada. It grows in shrub communities at elevations of {{convert|1000|-|2300|m|disp=flip}}.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250095083 Flora of North America v 7 p 526][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Descurainia%20paradisa.png BONAP (Biota of North America Project), floristic synthesis, Descurainia paradisa]

Descurainia paradisa is an annual herb up to {{convert|35|cm|disp=flip}} tall. Stems are often purple, branching at the base and sometimes above ground. Leaves are up to {{convert|3|cm|disp=flip}} long, pinnately lobed. Flowers are pale yellow, borne in a raceme. Fruits are egg-shaped, up to {{convert|5|mm|disp=flip}} long.Schulz, Otto Eugen. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1924. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 105(Heft 86): 331[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2348264#page/179/mode/1up Nelson, Aven & Kennedy, Patrick Beveridge. 1906. New Plants from the Great Basin. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 19(31): 155-157.][http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=85367 photo of isotype of Descurainia paradisa at Missouri Botanical Garden]Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.Holmgren, N. H., P. K. Holmgren & A.J. Cronquist. 2005. Vascular plants of the intermountain west, U.S.A., subclass Dilleniidae. 2(B): 1–488. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.