Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched basally.

basal and cauline;

petiolate or sessile;

basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire;

cauline petiolate or sessile, blade margins entire.

petiolate or sessile;

blade base not auriculate, (cuneate or attenuate), margins entire.

simple or forked, (minute).

(few- to several-flowered), bracteate throughout or basally.

bracteate, sometimes elongated in fruit.

sepals (sometimes persistent), oblong;

petals broadly obovate or spatulate, claw subequaling sepal, (apex rounded [obtuse]);

stamens slightly tetradynamous;

filaments dilated or not basally;

anthers obtuse;

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.

actinomorphic;

sepals erect or ascending, lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

petals white or lavender [pink, blue, or purple], claw present [absent], distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

[erect] ascending, divaricate, sometimes recurved, slender.

silicles or siliques, sessile or subsessile, oblong, elliptic, or lanceolate [ovate, linear];

valves each with obscure or distinct midvein, (smooth), glabrous;

replum flattened basally;

septum absent [complete and membranous];

style obsolete or distinct (to 2 mm);

stigma capitate.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, latiseptate [terete];

ovules 6–8[–32] per ovary;

style obsolete or distinct;

stigma entire.

plump, not winged, oblong or ovoid (on filiform funicles often longer than seeds);

seed coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons incumbent.

biseriate [uniseriate];

cotyledons incumbent.

= 7.