Perennials; caudex simple or branched; densely pubescent, trichomes (sessile or short-stalked), 6-8-rayed, rays furcate or bifurcate, (tuberculate, less so on outer layers). Stems simple or few from base, ascending to erect, (0.5-)1-2(-3.5) dm. Basal leaves: (petiole tapering to blade); blade rhombic to elliptic and irregularly angular, sometimes spatulate to oblanceolate, 1.5-7.5(-10) cm, margins entire. Cauline leaves: (not or loosely overlapping, petiolate or distal sessile); blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1-4 cm, margins entire. Racemes crowded, elongated. Fruiting pedicels (ascending, curved or sigmoid), 6-12(-20) mm. Flowers: sepals ovate, oblong, or elliptic 4-7.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate); petals spatulate or broadly cuneate, 6-13 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base). Fruits (substipitate), globose or obovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 4-9 mm; valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout; replum as wide as or wider than fruit; ovules 4-24 per ovary; style (2-)4-7 mm. Seeds flattened. 2n = 10.
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