Stanleya Species, Desert Plume, Golden Prince's Plume, Prince's Plume

This plant, Stanleya pinnata, is a possible alternate host plant for cabbage white butterflies.

If you grow this plant, it...Read More is advisable to keep it away from crop plants in the brassica family to avoid attracting cabbage whites which will eat your brassica family crops.

Brassica family crops include cabbages, collards, swiss chard, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussels sprouts, mustard etc.

The nasturtium flower is also a member of the brassica family so you may not want to grow this near them either for the previously mentioned reason.

Per Jan Emming owner of the Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in ...Read Morethe Arizona desert with a nursery:

One of the most striking plants in bloom in the Four Corners and Colorado Plateau in the months of May and June is the Prince's plume (Stanleya pinnata), a large and conspicuous member of the mustard family. Parts of the Navajo Nation were covered in a singular mass display of these, a thing which I have never seen before since these plants tend to exist more as scattered individuals rather than as carpets. These scenes were captured along McElmo Creek in southwestern Colorado, which flows to the north of Ute Mountain and westwards from Cortez to the San Juan River. It had rained the night before, and the refreshing clarity of the sparkling light was enhanced by the beautiful golden spires of this aptly-named plant.

I loved seeing these growing wild in Southern Utah, and the first year I planted it here in Northern Utah, it thrived in the sunlight wit...Read Moreh little water. The plumes were very floppy, though and often required staking.

It did not survive the winter, however. The soil might have been too heavy or too wet throughout the mild winter.

Slender stalks of yellow flowers atop tall, stout, smooth bluish-green, leafy stems.

Found in deserts and plains to lower ...Read Moremountains, often in sagebrush, from southeastern OR, to southeastern CA, east to the Great Plains from ND to west TX.