Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched.

(persistent) basal; rosulate;

petiolate;

blade margins entire.

(sometimes absent);

petiolate, subsessile, or sessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins usually entire or dentate, rarely pinnatifid.

often short-stalked, sessile, or subsessile, usually forked or dendritic, rarely malpighiaceous, sometimes simple or absent.

(corymbose, few- to several-flowered), not or slightly elongated in fruit.

ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals (early caducous, erect), oblong, (pubescent), base of lateral pair not saccate;

petals white to purplish, oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers ovate;

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.

actinomorphic;

sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair usually not saccate basally;

petals white, yellowish, pink, lavender, or purple, claw present, often indistinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

ascending to suberect, slender.

(erect, siliques or silicles), sessile or short-stipitate, lanceolate, broadly oblong to narrowly ovate, not torulose, latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein and somewhat anastomosing lateral veins, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 10–24 per ovary;

stigma capitate.

usually siliques, rarely silicles, dehiscent, unsegmented, usually latiseptate, rarely terete or slightly angustiseptate;

ovules [2–]4–250 per ovary;

style usually distinct, rarely obsolete;

stigma usually entire, rarely 2-lobed.

biseriate, somewhat flattened, not winged, oblong to ovoid;

seed coat (silvery, papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.

biseriate, sub-biseriate, uniseriate, or, rarely, aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

= 7.