Annual or biennial herbs with slender or stout, tuberous taproots. Basal leaves lyrate-pinnatisect, ± 5-jugate, petiolate, shortly hispid or setose, green; lobes dentate, the terminal lobe broadly ovate, lobulate. Upper stem leaves simple, obovate-oblong, ± cordate at the base, sessile, amplexicaul, glaucous, repand-dentate to entire, glabrous or nearly so. Racemes dense in flower, the open flowers generally overtopping the buds; lax in fruit. Flowers yellow, the petals 6-10 mm long. Fruiting pedicels spreading. Siliquae 3-5-6-5 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, linear; valves bulged by the seeds, 1-nerved, reti-culately veined; beak 0-8-2 cm long, attenÂuate. Seeds 18-24, 1-2-1-7 mm in diameter, generally dark-coloured with a reticulate seed-coat.
