Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, unbranched or branched basally or distally.

basal and cauline;

petiolate or sessile;

basal rosulate or not, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate to runcinate, or pinnatifid;

cauline petiolate or [sub]sessile, blade (base not auriculate, or auriculate to amplexicaul), margins entire or dentate to pinnatifid.

(corymbose, initially congested), considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals erect to ascending, oblong [ovate], lateral pair slightly saccate or not basally, (glabrous or pubescent);

petals white or purplish, spatulate or obovate (longer than sepals), claw gradually narrowed from blade to base, (margins sometimes pinnatifid, or deeply 2-lobed);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally, (glabrous or papillate basally);

anthers oblong;

nectar glands: lateral annular, median glands confluent with lateral.

ascending, divaricate, or horizontal, slender.

sessile or shortly stipitate, usually linear, rarely linear-oblong, torulose or smooth, terete or flattened (latiseptate);

valves each with a distinct midvein, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete, not veined;

ovules 10–110 per ovary;

style distinct;

stigma capitate, usually entire, rarely slightly 2-lobed.

uniseriate, plump, usually not winged, rarely narrowly so, ovate [oblong];

seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent [incumbent].

= [10] 12, 14.