Plant: annual herb; to 60 cm tall Leaves: to 15 cm long, sessile, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate; margins mostly lobed. BRACTS mostly elliptic to broadly ovate, with whitish bases, often located on the ovary; margins toothed to lobed INFLORESCENCE: cymose Flowers: sessile or short-pedicellate; petals yellow to orangish, 4-10 mm long, 3-6 mm wide; staminodia 0; stamens ca. 20-50, all with linear filaments; style 2-5 mm long Fruit: capsules clavate, tapering to base; base not woody; body 15-30 mm long, the earliest straight or slightly arched. SEEDS pendulous, not winged, those in upper half of capsule grain-like, several-faceted, irregular in cross-section, the angles sharp; testa cells with straight adjoining walls, the surface walls pointed-papillate Misc: Chaparral to pine woodlands; 1050-2050 m (3500-6800 ft); Mar-Jun REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 1998. Loasaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 96.
