Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, 0.5–1.7(–2.3) dm.

erect to decumbent or ascending, unbranched or branched.

blade often somewhat fleshy, to 4 mm wide, margins often entire, sometimes 1 or 2 weak teeth per side.

basal and, sometimes, cauline;

petiolate or sessile;

basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, sinuate, dentate, or, rarely, pinnately lobed;

cauline usually absent, rarely few present, (sub)sessile, blade margins usually entire, rarely dentate or pinnately lobed.

often loosely elongated in fruit.

(corymbose, sometimes bracteate basally or throughout), elongated or not in fruit.

sepals [sometimes persistent], oblong [ovate], lateral pair not saccate basally (sometimes slightly so in B. humilis and B. linearis);

petals white, pink, or purple [rarely pale yellow], obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, (slightly to much longer than sepals), claw distinct or not, (shorter than sepal, apex obtuse or rounded);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments dilated or not basally;

anthers ovate or oblong, (apex usually obtuse, sometimes apiculate);

nectar glands (4), lateral, 1 on each side of lateral stamen.

erect, divaricate, or ascending, slender (much narrower than fruit).

oblong to narrowly oblong-lanceoloid, often curved, (0.3–)0.5–1.2(–1.5) cm × (0.8–)1.1–3(–3.6) mm, 3.5–8.3 times as long as wide;

style slender or stout, (0.3–)0.5–1.6(–2) mm.

siliques or silicles, sessile, linear, oblong, cylindrical, oval-elliptic, ovoid, lanceoloid, lanceoloid-subulate, or globose, smooth or torulose, terete or slightly latiseptate;

valves each often with prominent midvein, glabrous or pubescent;

replum rounded;

septum complete, (membranous, translucent);

ovules (5–)14–44 per ovary;

stigma capitate, entire or slightly 2-lobed.

plump, not winged, oblong or ovoid;

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

cotyledons incumbent.

= 7.

= 56.