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Brassicaceae

Brassicaceae
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Cruciferae Jussieu, Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Herbs or subshrubs [shrubs or, rarely, lianas or trees], annual, biennial, or perennial; usually terrestrial, rarely submerged aquatics; with pungent watery juice; scapose or not; pubescent or glabrous, usually without papillae or tubercles (multicellular glandular papillae or tubercles present in Bunias, Chorispora, and Parrya); taprooted or rhizomatous (rarely stoloniferous), caudex simple or branched, sometimes woody, rhizomes slender or thick. Trichomes unicellular, simple, stalked, or sessile; forked, stellate, dendritic, malpighiaceous (medifixed, 2-fid, appressed), or peltate and scalelike, eglandular. Stems (absent in Idahoa, sometimes Leavenworthia) usually erect, sometimes ascending, descending, prostrate, decumbent, or procumbent; branched or unbranched. Leaves (sometimes persistent) cauline usually present, basal present or not (sometimes rhizomal present in Cardamine), rosulate or not, usually alternate (sometimes opposite or whorled in Cardamine angustata, C. concatenata, and C. diphylla and in Lunaria annua; sometimes subopposite in C. dissecta and C. maxima and in Draba ogilviensis), usually simple, rarely trifoliolate or pinnately, palmately, or bipinnately compound; stipules absent [with tiny, stipulelike glands at base of petioles and pedicels]; petiolate, sessile, or subsessile (sessile auriculate or not, sometimes amplexicaul); blade margins entire, dentate, crenate, sinuate, repand, or dissected. Inflorescences terminal, usually racemose (racemes often corymbose or paniculate) or flowers solitary on pedicels from axils of rosette leaves; bracts usually absent, sometimes present. Pedicels present (persistent or caducous [rarely geotropic]). Flowers bisexual [unisexual], usually actinomorphic (zygomorphic in Iberis, sometimes in Pennellia, Streptanthus, and Teesdalia); perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals usually caducous, rarely persistent, 4, in 2 decussate pairs (1 pair lateral, 1 median), distinct [connate], not saccate or lateral (inner) pair (or, rarely, both pairs) saccate, forming tubular, campanulate, or urceolate calyx; petals 4, alternate with sepals, usually cruciform, rarely in abaxial and adaxial pairs, rarely rudimentary or absent, claw differentiated or not from blade, blade sometimes reduced and much smaller than well-developed claw, basally unappendaged, or, rarely, ap
Duration: Biennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Subshrub
Species within checklist: South Dakota || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Alyssum alyssoides
Media resource of Alyssum alyssoides
Alyssum calycinum
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Alyssum desertorum
Media resource of Alyssum desertorum
Alyssum incanum
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Arabidopsis thaliana
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Arabis acutina
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not available
Arabis boivinii
Media resource of Arabis boivinii
Arabis bourgovii
Media resource of Arabis bourgovii
Arabis brachycarpa
Media resource of Arabis brachycarpa
Arabis bulbosa
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Arabis canadensis
Media resource of Arabis canadensis
Arabis collinsii
Media resource of Arabis collinsii
Arabis confinis
Media resource of Arabis confinis
Arabis connexa
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Arabis dacotica
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not available
Arabis dentata
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Arabis drummondii
Media resource of Arabis drummondii
Arabis glabra
Media resource of Arabis glabra
Arabis heterophylla
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Arabis hirsuta
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Arabis holboellii
Media resource of Arabis holboellii
Arabis interposita
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Arabis laevigata
Media resource of Arabis laevigata
Arabis lyrifolia
Media resource of Arabis lyrifolia
Arabis ovata
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Arabis oxyphylla
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Arabis pendulocarpa
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Arabis pinetorum
Media resource of Arabis pinetorum
Arabis pycnocarpa
Media resource of Arabis pycnocarpa
Arabis rhomboidea
Media resource of Arabis rhomboidea
Arabis shortii
Media resource of Arabis shortii
Arabis thaliana
Media resource of Arabis thaliana
Armoracia armoracia
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not available
Armoracia lapathifolia
Media resource of Armoracia lapathifolia
Armoracia rusticana
Media resource of Armoracia rusticana
Barbarea americana
Media resource of Barbarea americana
Barbarea arcuata
Media resource of Barbarea arcuata
Barbarea orthoceras
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Barbarea stricta
Media resource of Barbarea stricta
Barbarea vulgaris
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Berteroa incana
Media resource of Berteroa incana
Boechera angustifolia
Media resource of Boechera angustifolia
Boechera brachycarpa
Media resource of Boechera brachycarpa
Boechera canadensis
Media resource of Boechera canadensis
Boechera collinsii
Media resource of Boechera collinsii
Boechera dentata
Media resource of Boechera dentata
Boechera divaricarpa
Media resource of Boechera divaricarpa
Boechera drummondii
Media resource of Boechera drummondii
Boechera grahamii
Media resource of Boechera grahamii
Boechera holboellii
Media resource of Boechera holboellii
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