Rather stout herbs as much as 1.5 m. tall; stems glandular-pubescent, unarmed; leaves alternate, palmately compound, the petioles 5-25 cm. long, pilose, the leaf-lets 5-10, or the uppermost 3, oblanceolate-elliptic, subcaudate-acuminate, nar-rowly cuneate, 3-25 cm. long, 1-5 cm. broad, either surface with sparse, strigose hairs; inflorescence a many-flowered raceme, the peduncle densely glandular-puberulent, greatly elongate in fruit, the bracts foliaceous, petiolate, grading to the uppermost foliage leaves, the pedicels 1.5-2.0 cm. long, densely glandular-puberulent, accrescent in fruit; sepals ovate, acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, glandular-papillate; petals pink or pinkish-lavender, obovate, 1.0-1.5 cm. long, sessile; stamens 6, the filaments 1.0-1.5 cm. long, attached somewhat above the base of the androgynophore, the anthers about 5 mm. long; disc very prominent and ec-centric, persisting in fruit; ovary about 5 mm. long, papillate, the gynophore 0.5-1.0 cm. long, accrescent in fruit; silique narrowly fusiform, 6-10 cm. long, glabrous; seeds cochleate-reniform, about 1.5 mm. long, yellowish buff, smooth or inconspicuously tuberculate; fruiting gynophores shorter than the pedicels, 1-2 cm. long.
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