Habit: Annual to perennial herb, occasionally with caudex or rhizome; hairs simple or 0.
Stem: prostrate to erect, branched or not, leafy.
Leaf: basal rosetted or not, simple, entire or dentate to 1--3-pinnately divided; cauline petioled or sessile, generally lobed to sagittate at base, entire to dentate or pinnately lobed.
Inflorescence: elongated or congested; bracts 0 [rarely throughout].
Flower: sepals erect to spreading, base not sac-like, generally deciduous (persistent); petals present (vestigial or 0), yellow [white or pink], generally not clawed.
Fruit: silique, linear or narrowly oblong, or silicle, spheric to ovoid or broadly oblong; dehiscent, unsegmented; stigma entire or +- 2-lobed.
Seed: 10--300, 1(2) row(s) per chamber, generally wingless.
Species In Genus: 85 species: worldwide, on all continents except Antarctica.
Etymology: (Latinized Old Saxon: for these or perhaps other crucifers)
Note: Other taxa in TJM (1993) moved to
Nasturtium.
Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Reference: Al-Shehbaz & Price 1998 Novon 8:124--126
Unabridged Reference: Stuckey 1972 Sida 4:277--340Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Rorippa
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