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Brassicaceae

Flowers: Perfect, actinomorphic, 4-merous (traditional family name = "cross"); stamens TETRADYNAMOUS; carpels 2, syncarpous; ovary superior, 2-locular; numerous parietal ovules

Inflorescences: Bractless racemes

Fruits: Siliques or silicles, with a REPLUM, may be flattened perpendicular or parallel to the replum; bent embryo

Habit: Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs, very rarely shrubs; producing mustard oil glucosides

Leaves: Alternate, simple or pinnately lobed or compound, without stipules

Examples:
Alliaria officinalis (garlic mustard)
Armoracia rusticana (horseradish)
Brassica oleracea (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale)

B. campestris (turnips, Chinese cabbage)
B. juncea, B. nigra (mustards)
B. napus (rape seed, canola)
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's purse)
Dentaria laciniata (Toothwort)
Hesperis matrionalis (Dame's rocket)
Iberis (candy tuft)
Matthiola (stocks)
Lesquerella ludoviciana (silvery bladderpod)
Lunaria annua (money plant, honesty)
Nasturtium officinale (watercress)
Raphanus sativus (radish)