OregonFlora species comparison

terete.

withered early;

margins entire, dentate, or variously divided, petiolate.

bases auriculate or not;

margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect, petiolate or sessile.

racemes;

bracts 0 or rarely present.

sepals erect or spreading, caducous or persistent; ovate or oblong;

lateral pair saccate or not;

petals rarely absent, obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong, yellow, rarely white or pink, sometimes clawed, nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of all stamens;

stamens 6, tetradynamous;

anthers obtuse or rarely apiculate;

ovules 10–300 per ovary;

septa complete or perforate;

stigmas capitate; entire, or 2-lobed.

dehiscent siliques or silicles; terete or latiseptate, linear, oblong; ovoid; to globose;

tips obtuse or acute, unsegmented;

valves smooth or torulose, 1-veined or veinless; replums rounded.

10–300, biseriate or uniseriate, oblong to ovoid, reticulate, with small bumps, mucilaginous or not when wetted; wingless or rarely winged;

cotyledons accumbent.

absent or simple.