Annuals or perennials; usually glandular, rarely eglandular (glands multicellular on multiseriate stalks). Trichomes simple or absent. Cauline leaves (sometimes absent); petiolate; blade base not auriculate, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed. Racemes usually ebracteate, usually elongated in fruit. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals erect [ascending], lateral pair saccate [not saccate] basally; petals white, pink, lavender, or purple [yellow], claw present, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits usually siliques [silicles], dehiscent (or breaking into 1-seeded segments), rarely indehiscent, segmented or not, terete or latiseptate; ovules [2-]5-50[-numerous] per ovary; style distinct; stigma strongly 2-lobed [entire]. Seeds uniseriate [aseriate]; cotyledons accumbent.

Genera 3, species 47 (2 genera, 5 species in the flora): North America, Europe, Asia, n Africa.

Lower Taxa

• Chorispora R. Brown ex de Candolle
• Parrya R. Brown