Annual or biennial herbs 15-80 cm tall. Stems erect, usually branched, hispid in the lower part, usually less densely hairy above. Basal and lower stem leaves 10-15 cm long, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatipartite, 2-5-jugate, the lobes ovate, dentate; terminal lobe large, lobulate; petiole grooved, the groove and the upper surface of the midrib of the lobes hairy, the blades appressed-hairy and ciliate. Upper stem leaves ± oblong to lanceolate, cuneate, petiolate, sharply dentate, not lobed or ± incised at the base, subglabrous. RaÂcemes terminal, congregated into a panicle, dense in flower, lax in fruit. Sepals 5-10 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or with a few coarse hairs at the apex. Petals 1 • 5-2 cm long, long clawed, the blade obovate, rounded or emarginate. Siliquae on ascending pedicels of variable length, 2-6 cm long, 3-5 mm in diameter; valvar portion reduced to a sterile stalk c. 1-1-5 mm long or obsolete; stylar portion seed-bearing, terete, ribbed, glabrous or finely hispid
