Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs [biennials]; eglandular. Trichomes simple or absent. Cauline leaves (sometimes absent), petiolate or sessile; blade base not auriculate, margins usually entire, sometimes dentate or lobed. Racemes ebracteate, usually elongated in fruit. Flowers usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic; sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair not saccate basally; petals white, pink, or purple, claw present, often distinct; filaments not or rarely appendaged; pollen 3-colpate. Fruits silicles, dehiscent, unsegmented, angustiseptate; ovules 2 or 4 per ovary; style usually distinct (sometimes absent in Teesdalia); stigma entire or 2-lobed. Seeds usually aseriate, rarely uniseriate; cotyledons accumbent.

Genera 2, species 30 (2 genera, 5 species in the flora): introduced; Europe, Asia, Africa.

Lower Taxa

• Iberis Linnaeus
• Teesdalia W. T. Aiton