Plant: Prostrate perennial forb branching from central point Leaves: herbage glabrous with milky sap, stipules united into a glabrous, membranous scale INFLORESCENCE: flower-like, generally 1 per node; involucre < 2.5 mm, bell-shaped to obconic, glabrous; gland < 1 mm, oblong; appendage wider than gland, entire to slightly scalloped, white Flowers: flowers monoecious borne in cyathia; petaloid appendages white, conspicuous; ovary and capsule glabrous, ~2mm long; seeds smooth. Fruit: capsule, 2-2.5 mm, ovoid, 3-angled, glabrous; Seed 1-2 mm, oblong, smooth, white Misc: Dry slopes; < 2300 m.; Apr-Nov