Habit: [Annual] perennial herb; generally cespitose, caudex branched; hairs many-branched, tree-like, occasionally mixed with simple and stalked-forked hairs.
Leaf: basal rosetted, 1- or 2-pinnately lobed or divided (entire); cauline petioled or sessile, base not lobed.
Inflorescence: elongated or not; bracts 0 (present).
Flower: sepal ascending to spreading, base not sac-like; petals spoon-shaped to obovate, white to pink or purple (yellow).
Fruit: dehiscent, cylindric to 4-angled or flat parallel or perpendicular to septum, unsegmented; stigma entire or +- 2-lobed.
Seed: 4--30, in 1 row, wingless.
Species In Genus: 27 species: western North America, e¢ral Asia.
Etymology: (T. Smielowsky, Russian botanist, 1769--1815)
Jepson eFlora Author: Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Reference: Al-Shehbaz & Warwick 2006 Harvard Pap Bot 11:91--99
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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