Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Herbs (5–)20–100(–210) cm, retrorsely or spreading hirsute or hispid, rarely glabrous.
Stems:
Stems erect, often branched above.
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Alternate.
Basal and lower cauline leaves leaf blade oblong, ovate, or lanceolate in outline, lyrate, pinnatifid, or undivided and dentate, (3-)4-18(-25) × 1.5-5(-7) cm; terminal lobe broadly ovate, obovate, to elliptic, margin dentate; lateral lobes 1-4 on each sid
Petioles of basal and lower cauline leaves 1-4(-7) cm; . Upper cauline leaves shortly petiolate.
Flowers:
Racemes ebracteate, elongated considerably in fruit. Fruiting pedicels slender or thickened, erect, ascending, divaricate, or reflexed.
Fruiting pedicels ascending or suberect, stout, (2-)3-7(-15) mm.
Sepals yellow or green, narrowly oblong, (4.5-)5-6(-7) × 1-1.8 mm, spreading or reflexed.
Petals bright or pale yellow, obovate, (0.8-)0.9-1.2(-1.7) cm × (3-)4-6(-7.5) mm.
Stamens, 6; Filaments (3-)4-6 mm; anthers oblong, 1.2-1.5 mm.
Fruit:
Fruit linear; (1.5-)2-4.5(-5.7) cm × (1.5-)2.5-3.5(-4) mm; valvular segment (0.6-)1.2-3.5(-4.3) cm; (2-)4-8(-12)-seeded in each locule; 3-5(-7)-veined; torulose; terete (cylindrical); glabrous or pubescent with 1 kind of trichome; terminal segment conical or subulate; terete (cylindrical); (0.7-)1-1.6 cm; straight or curved upward; seedless or 1- or 2-seeded.
Seeds blackish to dark brown; globose; (1-)1.5-2 mm in diam.; finely reticulate.
Ploidy:
2n = 18
Habitat:
Elevation Range: