Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high; often in moist places but not generally aquatic. Stems erect, slender; minutely and sparsely tuberculate in lower half or smooth. Leaves with basal leaves in a rosette; petiolate, blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 2-9-jugate with lateral, short, rounded or lobulate, lateral lobes, terminal lobe ovate or obovate, dentate to lobulate or blade broadly obovate-ovate to ovate, serrate or dentate, not lobulate; stem leaves few, smaller. Flowers: in terminal racemes; petals narrowly obovate, base cuneate, 3.0-4.5 mm long, yellow; Oct.-Feb. Fruit with pedicels wide-spreading; siliquae linear-oblong, 12-33 x 2.0-2.8 mm; reticulately veined; style clavate or obconical.
Perennial herb, 0.3-0.6 m high. Stems minutely and sparsely tuberculate in lower half or smooth. Leaves: basal leaves rosulate, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid, 2-9-jugate, lateral lobes short, rounded or lobulate, terminal lobe ovate or oblong-ovate, dentate to lobulate; or leaves oblanceolate to obovate, serrate or dentate, not lobed; cauline leaves small, broadly petiolate or sessile, lanceolate or oblanceolate, incised-lobate, 2-or 3-jugate, dentate or subentire. Inflorescence a raceme. Petals narrowly obovate, cuneate. Fruit a siliqua, linear-oblong, erect or ascending. Seeds oval, compressed, with coat minutely papillate.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 50 cm long. The leaves at the base are in a ring. The blades are 7 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. There are irregular teeth around the edge. The flowers are in groups at the ends of stems. They are yellow. The fruit are long and thin like a pod and 3.8 cm long. The seeds are in 2 rows
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Basal leaves in a rosette; cauline leaves few, small. Petals 3.0-4.5 mm long. Flowers yellow.