Flora of North America species comparison

often simple from base, (1–)4–13 dm.

petiole 1–30 cm;

blade oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate in outline, lyrate or pinnatisect, sometimes undivided, 2–60 cm × 10–200 mm, margins dentate, apex obtuse or acute;

lobes 1–12 each side, oblong or ovate, to 10 cm × 50 mm.

(distal) subsessile;

blade often undivided.

petiolate or sessile;

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

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals 5.5–10 × 1–2 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

petals usually purple or pink, sometimes white (veins often darker), 15–25 × 3–8 mm, claw to 14 mm;

filaments 5–12 mm;

anthers 1.5–2 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.

spreading to ascending, 5–40 mm.

usually fusiform or lanceolate, sometimes ovoid or cylindrical;

valvular segment 1–3.5 mm;

terminal segment (1–)3–15(–25) cm × (5–)7–13(–15) mm, smooth or, rarely, slightly constricted between seeds, not ribbed, beak narrowly to broadly conical to linear;

style 10–40 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).

globose or ovoid, 2.5–4 mm diam. 2n = 18.

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

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

absent or simple.