Plant: perennial herb; stems with a perennial taproot and annual stolons; densely hairy with soft silky trichomes giving the plant a pale tawny-green cast Leaves: herbaceous, the blades reniform to orbicular, sparsely pubescent, 8-40 mm long, 10-55 mm wide, the apex often shallowly emarginate, the base truncate to broadly cordate, usually with a deep sinus; petioles 1.5-15 cm long, curved INFLORESCENCE: of solitary flowers on recurved peduncles; bracteoles 2, scale-like Flowers: pedicels 5-13(-26) mm long, sharply recurved, usually in the upper portion; calyx broadly campanulate, the sepals lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm long at anthesis, accrescent to 3.8-5.2 mm long in fruit, villous externally; corollas greenish cream-colored, campanulate, 3.5-6 mm long, 5-lobed about 2/3-3/4 of the length, the lobes lanceolate, acute, villous on outer surface Fruit: FRUITS capsular, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent and circumscissile, membranaceous, entire or 2-lobed, the pericarp thin, 6-7 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. SEEDS pyriform, 1.5-2.25(-4) mm long, brown Misc: Oak woodland and lower ponderosa pine zone; 1200-1850 m (4000-6000 ft); Jul-Oct REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.