Plant: Annual but often over-wintering, prostrate to erect, 7-50 cm; taproot slender; stem: internodes hairy in line Leaves: simple, ± evenly spaced; blade 8-45 mm, ± ovate; margin ± smooth, ± flat, shiny, often ciliate near base; vein 1 Inflorescence: cyme, terminal or axillary, few-flowered, ± dense; bracts leafy; pedicels spreading to erect, in fruit curved to reflexed Flowers: sepals 5, 3-4.5 mm, > 6 mm in fruit, lanceolate to ovate, acute to obtuse, glabrous or ± hairy and glandular, margin ± widely scarious, ribs often 1 or 3 near base; petals 5, 0.7-0.9 X sepal; stamens 10, sometimes fewer; styles 3, 0.2-2.8 mm Fruit: Fruit: capsule, ± ovoid to cylindric-oblong; teeth 6(8,10), ascending to recurved; Seed 0.9-1.3 mm, reddish or purplish brown; surface papillate Misc: Oak woodlands, meadows, disturbed areas; < 1300 m.; Feb-Sep