Lateral nectar glands variable, often in pairs, small, sometimes semiannular or annular; middle glands present or absent. Hairs simple, branched or absent. Stamen filaments usually not appendaged; anthers usually blunt. Ovary sessile, rarely shortly stipitate, often short and elliptic; style present with shortly bilobed or capitate stigma. Fruit usually short siliculae, rarely elongated (siliqua-like), broadly septate, ovate, orbicular to elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, bilocular, dehiscent; seeds biseriate (rarely sub-biseriate), not winged, rarely obscurely to slightly winged; radicle accumbent.

Represented by 3 genera and 26 species in our area.

Lower Taxa

• Draba Linn.
• Erophila DC.
• Graellsia Boiss.