It is similar in habit to
Alyssum and has small yellow flowers, except that it has a suborbicular pouch and one seeded cells. The plants are characterised by inflorescences that are usually compound, subumbellate
racemes. There is a single ovule per loculus, and the fruit valves are at most only slightly inflated.
Range Its widespread native range is from temperate
Eurasia to subarctic America. It is found in Europe (within Albania, Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Islands, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Sardina, Sicily, Switzerland and former Yugoslavia), Eastern Europe (within Central European Russia, Crimea, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia and Ukraine),
Siberia (within Altai, Buryatiya, Chita Oblast, Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tuva, West Siberia and Yakutskiya), the Russian Far East (within Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast), Central Asia (within Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), the Caucasus (North Caucasus and Transcaucasus), Western Asia (Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey), China (
Inner Mongolia,
Manchuria and
Xinjiang),
Mongolia and also Subarctic America (within Alaska, Northwest Territories and the Yukon). next, Albania is known to have 7 species. It is also found on the
serpentine soils of
Lesbos Island (in Greece). ==Taxonomy==