Plant: perennial herb, woody taproot; stems suffrutescent, erect to almost decumbent, usually branched, appressed-pubescent to hirsute to sericeous Leaves: elliptic to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, 3-10 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, usually acute on both ends, sometimes obtuse basally, with indumentum as on stems; petioles to 2 mm long INFLORESCENCE: usually of solitary flowers concentrated in upper leaf axils Flowers: sepals 3-4.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, equal or the inner ones slightly longer, the margins scarious, the outer sepals pubescent throughout, the inner sepals pubescent only at apex; corolla white, 5-6.5 mm long Fruit: FRUITS unilocular, 4-valvate, ovoid, 5-6 mm long, brown, apically pubescent. SEEDS 3-4 mm long, glabrous Misc: Alkaline ponds, marshes, lakes, and cultivated fields; 50-1200 m (100-4000 ft); May-Nov REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.