PLANT: Annual, 4-12 cm tall, usually with ascending to spreading branches; stems with short glandular hairs and some nonglandular curly hairs. LEAVES: subglabrous to short glandular pubescent, coarsely toothed to lobed, the lobes ovate. INFLORESCENCE: a congested terminal head, bracteate, the outer bracts leaf-like; flowers sessile to subsessile. FLOWER: calyx 3-6 mm long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla white, the tube 3-5 mm long, the throat 0.5-1 mm wide, the lobes rounded; stamens inserted on the throat between the lobes; filaments subequal; anthers and stigma slightly exserted. CAPSULE: 4-5 mm long; seeds 1-3 per locule. 2n=14. NOTES: Sandy or gravelly soils, washes, desert shrublands, pinyonjuniper woodland; Apache, Coconino, Graham, Greenlee, Mohave, Navajo cos.; 890-1700 m (2900-5600 ft); Apr-Jun; e CA to s ID, s to TX, n Mex. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.