Plant: annual herb; to 40 cm tall Leaves: to 12 cm long, sessile, nearly linear to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate; margin mostly toothed to lobed. BRACTS (lanceolate) ovate, green, mostly not on ovary; margins usually entire INFLORESCENCE: cymose Flowers: sessile; petals yellow, broadly to narrowly obovate, 2.5-4 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide; staminodia 0; stamens ca. 15-30, all with linear filaments; style 2-4 mm long Fruit: capsules, very narrowly clavate, long-tapering to base; base not woody; body 12-30 mm long, arching to 180 degrees. SEEDS pendulous, not winged, those in upper half of capsule grain-like, several-faceted; irregular in cross-section, the angles rounded; testa cells with straight adjoining walls, the surface walls flat Misc: on sand; 50-500 m (200-1700 ft); Mar-May REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 1998. Loasaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 96.