General:
Perennial or biennial herb from taproot and branched or unbranched stem-base; stems simple, 3-35 cm tall, hairy.

Leaves:
Basal leaves in a rosette, linear-lanceolate, 5-7 cm long, blades entire or shallowly toothed, 1-6 cm long, 2-4 mm wide; stalks narrow.

Flowers:
Inflorescence racemose, flowers numerous, often with 1 to few bracts, each subtending one of the lower flowers, very short when flowering, greatly elongating in fruit; flower stalks 5-28 mm long, ascending to erect; petals pink to pink-purple, 10-16 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, claw about 5-8 mm long; sepals papery-margined, purplish, 5-8 mm long.

Fruits:
Siliques, stiffly erect, dark purple, 3-10 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, somewhat curved, distinctly compressed parallel to the septum; beaks (1) 1.5-3 mm long; seeds 2 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia