Alliaria Heist. ex Fabr.
Annual or biennial taprooted herbs. Hairs simple. Stems erect, leafy. Lvs simple, cordate to truncate, petiolate. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals erect, not saccate. Petals white. Stamens 6, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 4, joined around bases of lateral stamens; median nectaries 2. Style short; stigma capitate. Silique linear, dehiscent; valves with prominent midrib and 2 weaker lateral veins; beak 0. Seeds narrow-ovoid to cylindric, not winged, in 1 row per locule.
2 spp., Europe, W. Asia, N. Africa. Naturalised sp. 1.
