Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect, rarely ascending, unbranched or branched.

cauline and, sometimes, basal;

petiolate or sessile;

basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, lyrately lobed or 1- or 2-pinnatifid;

cauline blade (base sometimes auriculate or amplexicaul), margins entire or dentate to pinnatifid.

petiolate or sessile;

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

usually simple, rarely forked or dendritic [subdendritic], sometimes absent.

considerably elongated in fruit.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals spreading to reflexed, oblong-linear or linear, lateral pair not saccate basally;

petals usually yellow or whitish, rarely white or yellow-orange, obovate, orbicular, oblong, linear, filiform, or oblanceolate, claw distinctly differentiated from blade (claw glabrous or papillose);

stamens (exserted), equal;

filaments not dilated basally, (often papillose basally);

anthers linear, (strongly spirally coiled after dehiscence);

lateral nectar glands annular, median present or absent, confluent with lateral ones.

usually actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic;

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

petals white, yellow, orange, pink, lilac, lavender, purple, green, brown, or nearly black, claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

horizontal, divaricate, or divaricate-ascending, slender.

long-stipitate, linear, often torulose, terete or latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 22–70 per ovary;

style obsolete or distinct (to 1.7 mm);

stigma capitate, entire.

usually siliques, rarely silicles, usually dehiscent, unsegmented, usually terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate;

ovules 1–210[–numerous] per ovary;

style obsolete, distinct, or absent;

stigma usually entire or 2-lobed (subentire in Sibaropsis, Streptanthella).

uniseriate, plump, not winged, usually oblong, rarely ovoid;

seed coat (obscurely reticulate), slightly mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent to incumbent.

usually biseriate or uniseriate, rarely aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

= 14.