Plant: Diffusely branched delicate annual forb 5-30 cm Leaves: basal; petiole short or 0; 3-16 mm, oblanceolate to elliptic, narrowed gradually to petiole, toothed or pinnately lobed, hairy INFLORESCENCE: flowers in racemes on all branches; bracts 1-3 mm, spreading, linear to ovate; pedicels 6-16 mm, 0.1-0.2 mm diam, spreading, straight or slightly curved, tip generally curved Flowers: white with purple tinge, bilabiate; hypanthium ± 1 mm; sepals 1.5-2.5 mm, linear-elliptic to ± deltate, spreading; corolla 2-2.5 mm, divided ± to base, white, upper lobes erect, lower lobes ciliate; filament tube 1-2.3 mm, tip slightly curved, glabrous, anthers 0.2-0.4 mm Fruit: capsule, ± 2-4 mm, ± hemispheric (base and tip rounded); dehiscing at tip by 2 valves; chambers 2; Seed ± 0.5 mm, cylindric; surface with impressed, vertical lines crossed by fine transverse lines Misc: Dry slopes, sandy soils, washes; < 2400 m. Notes: anthers free below, fused above, with glassy appendages References: J.C. Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual. W.B. McDougal. Seed plants of Northern Arizona. ASU specimens.