Biennials; (somewhat glaucous), glabrous throughout . Stems usually branched basally, rarely unbranched, 1.4-5(-6) dm. Basal leaves (soon withered); rosulate; shortly petiolate; blade (fleshy, mottled), broadly obovate to suborbicular, 1.5-4 cm, margins coarsely dentate. Cauline leaves: blade ovate to cordate, 0.7-3.7 cm × 3-15 mm (smaller distally), base auriculate to amplexicaul, margins serrate-dentate or entire. Racemes ebracteate, (lax, sometimes secund). Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, (straight), 1-2 mm. Flowers: calyx urceolate; sepals (erect), rose-purple (to yellowish at base), (ovate), 5-7 mm, keeled, (apex recurved); petals whitish, (abaxial pair with purple spot, adaxial pair faintly purple-veined), 7-10 mm, blade 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 mm, margins not crisped, claw 5-7 mm, as wide as or wider than blade; stamens in 3 unequal pairs; filaments: abaxial pair (connate to middle), 4-7 mm, lateral pair 2-4 mm, adaxial pair (completely connate, usually recurved), 8-10 mm; anthers: abaxial and lateral pairs fertile, 2-2.5 mm, adaxial pair sterile, 0.7-1.2 mm; gynophore 0.3-0.7 mm. Fruits divaricate-ascending, torulose, nearly straight, flattened, 4-6 cm × 1-1.3 mm; valves each with obscure midvein; replum constricted between seeds; ovules 22-30 per ovary; style 0.1-0.4 mm; stigma subentire. Seeds oblong, 1.8-2.5 × 0.7-0.9 mm; wing 0-0.1 mm wide distally. 2n = 28.
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