Shepherd's cress

General: Glabrous, annual herbs, the stems single, simple or freely-branched from the base, 5-25 cm. tall.
Leaves: Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, 1.5-5 cm. long, slender-petiolate, the blades oval to oblanceolate or obovate, entire to lyrate-pinnatifid.
Flowers: Inflorescence a terminal, bractless raceme, the stem scapose or with 1-several bract-like, entire to deeply-lobed leaves; pedicles slender, divergent, 4-8 mm. long; sepals 4, not saccate, often purple-tinged, about 0.5 mm. long;.. more