a pilose herb, branched at the crown of the apparently perennial root; branches prostrate or procumbent, shortly flagelliform, patently hairy, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. long; hairs whitish, jointed, tipped with minute glands; internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; leaves opposite, roundly ovate or oval, very obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, subcordate, rounded or subtruncate at the inconspicuously 5–7-nerved base, serrate-dentate, firmly membranous, finely pilose, 2/5– 4/5 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad, subsessile or shortly petiolate; teeth mucronate; petioles ranging up to 1/6 in. long, pilose; racemes terminal, ascending, curved and often sinuous, many-flowered, 4–8 in. long, rather slender; bracts cordate, pointed, sessile, spreading, about 1/7 in. long or some of the lower larger and leaf-like; pedicels alternate, spreading, often ascending in fruit, rather slender, finely pilose, 1/4– 3/4 in. long; calyx-segments ovate or oblong, subobtuse or subacute, pilose, imbricate, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; corolla dark pink, about 2/3 in. broad; spurs 2, about 1/4 in. long; filaments 4, linear-filiform, glabrous or minutely glandular, nearly equal, about 1/12 in. long, all bearing whitish anthers; capsules ovoid-oblong, 1/6– 1/4 in. long. null
