Flora of North America species comparison

erect, often branched distally, rarely unbranched, (usually slender, rarely stout).

cauline (basal not seen, soon withered, not rosulate);

petiolate or sessile;

blade (base cuneate, auriculate, or amplexicaul), margins entire.

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, floral buds clavate), not or slightly elongated in fruit.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

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

petals (spreading), white or pink to deep purple, obovate, orbicular, or spatulate, (margins entire or crisped), claw strongly differentiated from blade (slender, often dilated basally, usually minutely to coarsely papillate or pubescent, rarely nearly smooth, apex rounded);

stamens (strongly exserted, spreading), subequal;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers linear, (coiled after dehiscence);

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens, (often 6 teeth alternating with filaments), median glands present.

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 deciduous at maturity, leaving elevated discoid scars on rachis), divaricate, slender, (sometimes filiform, straight, with 2 lateral glands basally).

stipitate, narrowly linear, smooth, (recurved), latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein throughout;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 20–60 per ovary;

style usually obsolete, rarely distinct;

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).

uniseriate, not winged, oblong;

seed coat (concentrically striate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.

usually biseriate or uniseriate, rarely aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

= 12.