5. Descurainia incisa (Engelmann ex A. Gray) Britton, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club. 5: 173. 1894.
Sisymbrium incisum Engelmann ex A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 8. 1849
Annuals; glandular or eglan-dular; densely to sparsely pubescent, glabrous or pubes-cent distally, sometimes canescent, trichomes dendritic. Stems erect, usually unbranched basally, branched distally or sometimes throughout, (1.3-)2-8.2(-10.7) dm. Basal leaves: petiole 0.5-4.7 cm; blade pinnate, obovate to oblanceolate in outline, 1.5-10.3 cm, lateral lobes (2-9 pairs), ovate or oblong to lanceolate or linear, margins usually dentate to incised or entire, rarely pinnatifid or crenate. Cauline leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade smaller distally, distal lobes oblong, lanceolate, linear, (margins dentate to denticulate or entire), surfaces pubescent or glabrous. Racemes considerably elongated in fruit, (glandular or eglandular). Fruiting pedicels ascending to divaricate or horizontal, straight, (3-)5-25(-30) mm. Flowers: sepals erect to ascending, yellowish, oblong to ovate, 1.6-2.4 mm, glabrous or pubescent; petals narrowly oblanceolate, 1.7-2.8 × 0.5-0.9 mm; median filaments 1.6-2.4 mm; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm. Fruits erect to ascending, linear, slightly torulose, 8-20 × 0.9-1.3 mm, (straight or slightly to strongly curved inward); valves each not veined or with distinct midvein; septum not veined; ovules 14-26 per ovary; style 0.1-0.3 mm, glabrous. Seeds uniseriate, reddish brown, oblong, 0.9-1.3 × 0.5-0.6 mm.
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora): North America, n Mexico.
