Plant: annual herb; STEMS 3-16 cm tall, slender Leaves: narrowly oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or linear, 5-32 mm long, 0.5-5.0 mm wide Flowers: heterostylous, earliest ones sessile, later ones on erect pedicels to ca. 16 mm long; corollas 2-3 mm long, funnelform or subsalverform, white Fruit: FRUITS 2-4 mm long and wide, 3/4-9/10 inferior, thin-walled, sessile or on erect pedicels ca. 16 mm long; SEEDS 0.5-0.8 mm long, obtusely 3-angled Misc: Outcrops, rocky slopes, in pine-oak, oak-juniper; 1500-2450 m (5000-8000 ft); Aug-Sep REFERENCES: Terrell, Edward E. 1995 Rubiaceae. Hedyotis. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 29(l): 29.