Flora of North America species comparison

[rarely absent], petiolate, subsessile, or sessile;

blade base not auriculate, margins usually pinnately or palmately lobed, sometimes entire [dentate].

stalked, usually dendritic, stellate, or forked, sometimes mostly simple.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

actinomorphic;

sepals suberect to spreading [erect], lateral pair not saccate basally;

petals white, pink, or purple [yellow], claw present, distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, 4-angled, angustiseptate, terete, or subterete [latiseptate];

ovules 4–30[–numerous] per ovary;

style distinct [obsolete];

stigma entire [rarely slightly 2-lobed].

uniseriate [biseriate];

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.