Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, unbranched or branched (few to several), 0.9–6.5(–8) dm.

blade oblanceolate, 3–28 cm × 8–110 mm, margins dentate to deeply lobed or pinnatifid, lobes 3–10 each side, smaller than terminal, lobe margins crenate or dentate, surfaces sparsely pubescent.

similar to basal, distal shortly petiolate or sessile, blade smaller (distalmost 1–2 cm, passing into bracts, leaflike, linear, margins entire).

petiolate or sessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, serrate, or pinnately lobed.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals 3–5 × 1–2 mm, sparsely hispid apically;

petals white to pale yellow, 4–8 × 1.5–3 mm;

filaments 3.5–5.5 mm.

actinomorphic;

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

petals white, cream, yellow, pink, lilac, lavender, or purple, claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

(3–)5–10(–20) mm.

slightly torulose, 1–4.5 cm × 1–2(–2.7) mm;

terminal segment 1.5–4 mm;

style 1–3 mm.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent or indehiscent, usually segmented, usually latiseptate or terete (subterete or 4-angled in Erucastrum) [angustiseptate];

ovules (1–)2–276[–numerous] per ovary;

style usually distinct (absent in Cakile, obscure in Carrichtera, obsolete in Eruca);

stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed (sometimes slightly 2-lobed in Cakile).

reddish brown, 1.1–1.5 × 0.7–0.8 mm, alveolate.

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

cotyledons usually conduplicate, rarely accumbent or incumbent (in Cakile).

absent or simple.

= 30.