Plant: Annual 3-20 cm; stem ascending to erect, 0-few-branched, ± short-glandular Leaves: ± basal, 10-50 mm; blade = or > petiole, ± round, wavy to crenate INFLORESCENCE: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short Flowers: pedicel 1-8 mm, < 12 mm in fruit; calyx lobes 1.5-2 mm, 2-3.5 mm in fruit, narrowly ovate, densely short-hairy, glandular; corolla 4-6 mm, cream-white, funnel- to bell-shaped, deciduous, scales linear; stamens 2-4 mm, puberulent; style 2-3 mm Fruit: capsule, 3-4 mm, spheric, puberulent; Seeds > 60, ± 1 mm, oblong to spheric, generally brownish; cross-furrows on back 4-7 Misc: Clay or alkaline soils, flats, slopes; < 1000 m.; Mar-May