Cheiranthus L.
Perennial taprooted herbs, sometimes woody below. Hairs appressed, medifixed or branched. Stems erect, leafy. Lvs simple, entire or distantly toothed. Racemes ebracteate. Sepals erect, the inner saccate. Petals usually yellow or red, brown or purple. Stamens 6, without appendages. Lateral nectaries 4, paired at bases of single stamens; median nectaries 0. Style short; stigma 2-lobed, with lobes spreading. Silique linear, dehiscent; valves 1-veined; beak 0. Seeds oblong, sometimes winged, in 1-2 rows per locule.
10 spp., Canary Is, Europe, W. Asia, N. America. Naturalised sp. 1.
