Stems erect to ascending, branched, 1.4–6(–8) dm, glabrous. Leaves nonaromatic; petiole 0.5–6.5 cm; blade narrowly triangular, oblong-triangular, to almost deltate, 1.7–7.5(–9) × 0.8–3.5 cm, base subtruncate to broadly cuneate, often subhastate, margins coarsely laciniate-dentate or sinuate-dentate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences glomerules in axils of leaflike bracts; glomerules globose, 3–8 mm diam.; bracts leaflike throughout inflorescence; flowers maturing from base to apex. Flowers: perianth segments 3(–4), connate only at base or connate into irregular lobes; lobes obovate, 0.5–0.7 × 0.3–0.7 mm, apex rounded, not keeled, glabrous, becoming red, enlarged, and fleshy in fruit; stamens usually 1; stigmas 2, 0.5 mm. Achenes ovoid; pericarp adherent, dark reddish brown, fleshy, smooth. Seeds round, 1–1.2 mm diam., margins rounded with an incised groove; seed coat dark red-brown, minutely reticulate-punctate.
