Plant: annual herb; glabrous, sometimes glaucous, stems mostly prostrate or ascending, to 28 (-40) cm long Leaves: of basal rosette to 40 mm long, to 10 (-16) mm wide, oblanceolate to obovate; cauline leaves to 20 (-36) mm long, 1-5 (-7) mm wide, oblanceolate Flowers: 1-several, pedicellate, sepals 5, 1.5-3 mm long, mostly 3-nerved; stamens usually 3, nearly equalling the sepals, pistils mostly 3-carpellate, the styles short or stigmas subsessile Fruit: FRUITS capsules, exceeding the sepals by 1/4-1/2 of their length, the apex 3-lobed. SEEDS numerous, ca. 0.6 mm, broadly reniform, the rounded back with (0-) 6-8 parallel dark brown ridges, the surface otherwise finely striate, shiny red-brown Misc: 800-2300 m (2600-7600 ft); Jul-Nov REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 1998. Molluginaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 112..