Hairless perennial herbs; roots rhizomatous, bulging. Leaves basal, simple or deeply lobed. Flowers with sepals and petals 4; petals white. Fruit globose to ellipsoid with the valves weakly veined; style short; seeds in 2 rows in each chamber. [Cochlearia L.]
Root cuttings.
Large plants with leaves often more than 30 cm long, similar to those of Dock (Rumex) but without the ocreae.
3 species from Eurasia.
Source: (1997). Brassicaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
