Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, unbranched or branched.

unbranched or branched proximally, (0.4–)1.5–3(–5) dm, pubescent.

basal and cauline;

petiolate or subsessile;

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

cauline petiolate or subsessile, blade margins usually entire or dentate, rarely sinuate [lobed].

soon withered.

petiolate or (distal) subsessile;

petiole (0.1–)0.6–2(–3) cm;

blade elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong, (0.5–)1.5–6(–10) cm × (3–)10–25(–35) mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, apex acute.

(few- to several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit.

rachis straight or slightly flexuous.

sepals narrowly oblong [ovate], pubescent;

petals pink or purple [rarely white], oblanceolate [spatulate, oblong], (longer than sepals), claw undifferentiated from blade, (apex obtuse or rounded);

stamens tetradynamous, (erect);

filaments not dilated basally [sometimes median 4 connate in 2 pairs];

anthers oblong [ovate], (apiculate or not);

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

sepals sometimes persistent, (3.5–)4–5 × 0.5–0.7 mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, (6.5–)8–10(–12) × 1–2 mm;

filaments distinct, 2.5–5 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9–1.1 mm.

ascending or divaricate, stout [slender] (about equal to fruits).

0.5–2(–4) mm.

siliques, subsessile, linear, smooth [torulose], 4-angled [terete];

valves each with obscure [prominent] midvein, pubescent or glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 40–80 per ovary;

style obsolete;

stigma conical, 2-lobed (lobes connivent or connate, opposite replum).

divaricate-ascending, straight, (2.5–)3.5–5.5(–7) cm × 1–1.3 mm;

valves usually pubescent, rarely glabrous, trichomes coarse and forked, these mixed with smaller, forked, subdendritic, or simple, subsetiform ones;

stigma to 1 mm.

uniseriate, plump or slightly flattened, not winged, oblong [ovate];

seed coat (reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons incumbent.

1–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm.

= 7.

= 14, 28.