Plant: Annual; hairs spreading, shaggy; stems several, erect, 0.5-3 dm Leaves: simple, generally smaller upward; basal in rosette, 1-5 cm; cauline few, alternate INFLORESCENCE: raceme or spike, ± strongly coiled toward tip, bracted near base; generally elongate in fruit; flowers generally > 10 per branch; pedicels generally 0-1 mm Flowers: bisexual; sepals fused below middle, 2-10 mm in fruit; calyx 3-5 mm; corolla 1-3 mm wide, all white or yellow inside tube Fruit: Fruit: nutlet 1-2 mm, thickly cross-shaped; cross-ribs wide, generally tubercled; interspaces narrow, groove-like, often obscure; scar lateral near middle Misc: Dry slopes in grassland, scrub, woodland, or forest; < 1700 m.; Mar-May