Plant: Annual, biennial; stem prostrate to ascending, 1-5 dm, ± canescent Leaves: simple, 1.5-4 cm; blade generally < petiole, ovate, cordate, crenate to shallowly lobed, densely puberulent to strigose INFLORESCENCE: umbel Flowers: bisexual, sepals 5-10 mm, tip strigose; petals unequal, 7-12 mm, lavender to purple; stamens 5, alternate 5 scale-like staminodes Fruit: Fruit: indehiscent, fusiform, 1-seeded, base sharply pointed, top generally pitted, body 5-8 mm, pit transversely elliptic, glabrous, furrow 0; style column 3-7 cm Misc: Dry, open sites, scrub; < 1500 m.; Mar-May References: W. B. McDougal. Seed plants of Northern Arizona.J.C. Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual. ASU specimens.