Capsella Medik.
Annual or biennial taprooted herbs. Hairs simple and stellate, rarely 0. Stems erect, leafy. Lvs usually deeply pinnatifid, sometimes entire. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals erecto-patent, not saccate. Petals white or reddish, rarely 0. Stamens usually 6, sometimes fewer, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 4, paired at bases of single stamens; median nectaries 0. Style short; stigma small, capitate. Silicle obtriangular, angustiseptate; valves keeled, reticulately veined. Seeds oblong, not winged, up to 12 per locule.
5 spp., Mediterranean, Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia. Naturalised sp. 1.
