Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally.

basal and cauline;

petiolate or sessile;

basal (often withered by anthesis or fruiting), not or, rarely, rosulate, shortly petiolate, blade margins subentire, dentate, pinnatifid, or pinnatisect [rarely entire];

cauline sessile, blade (base usually auriculate), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid to pinnatisect.

petiolate or sessile;

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

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

(corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals ascending, oblong to ovate, lateral pair not saccate basally;

petals white to purplish, spatulate to oblong, (subequaling or longer than sepals), claw not differentiated from blade;

stamens slightly tetradynamous;

filaments slightly dilated basally;

anthers ovate;

nectary glands each side of lateral stamen or semi-annular, median glands absent.

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.

often recurved, sometimes divaricate-ascending, slender.

(pendulous), sessile, cymbiform, orbicular, obovate [ovate, elliptic], smooth, strongly latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous or pubescent;

replum entire or crenate, often perforated, (winged, wing flattened, with radiating rays);

septum obsolete;

ovule 1 per ovary;

style distinct (relatively short) or obsolete;

stigma 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).

aseriate, flattened, not winged, elliptical to orbicular;

seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.

usually biseriate or uniseriate, rarely aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.