an annual herb, glabrous or slightly puberulous; branches often elongated, decumbent or ascending, ranging up to 14 in. long; radical leaves rosulate, oblanceolate, runcinate-pinnatifid, dentate or repand, rounded at the apex, tapering to the base, membranous, together with the petiole 3/4– 1/2 in. long; lobes or teeth obtuse; upper leaves alternate or opposite, obovate, oblanceolate or oblong, sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, sometimes rather few and mostly smaller than the radical; peduncles axillary or subracemose, distant or the upper subfasciculate, 1–2 in. long; calyx-segments broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, nearly glabrous or scarcely ciliolate, 1/10– 1/8 in. long; corolla about 1/4 in. broad, with two small pouches; stamens glabrous; filaments all subulate, two often without anthers; capsule ovoid, somewhat compressed, 1/4 in. long; seeds rugose, reddish. null
