stems herbaceous, prostrate, sub-simple, angular, glabrous, green; leaves petiolate, tapering and slightly clasping at base, oblong or lanceolate-linear, acute or obtuse, or mucronate, glabrous; cymes terminal, pedunculate, loosely corymbose, much branched; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, nerveless; fruits pitted and furrowed, much shorter than the sepals. Root thick, deeply descending. Stems many from the crown, 12–14 inches long, spreading in a circle, the ends upturned and flowering. Leaves 1/2–1 1/2 inch long. slightly fleshy, very variable in form. Sepals with broad, silvery-white margins, Cymes 2–2 1/2 inches across, flat-topped.
