rootstock woody; stems shrubby below, herbaceous above, puberulous, branched, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high, dusky-grey when dry; stems several, erect or ascending; branches ascending or decumbent, terete, wiry, leafy; branchlets divaricate or ascending, rather slender, somewhat flexuous, leafy; leaves alternate or opposite, somewhat subfasciculate, ovate or elliptical, pinnati-partite or pinnatifid, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, glandular-puberulous, grey-green, 1/5– 1/9 in. long, 1/16– 1/3 in. broad; lobes oblong or ovate, obtuse, entire or few-toothed; flowers axillary and subterminal or racemose, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, forming terminal leafy racemes 1–9 in. long; pedicels alternate, 1/8– 2/3 in. long, glandular-puberulous, ebracteolate, rather slender or in fruit rather rigid; calyx campanulate, 1/12– 1/8 in. long, finely glandular-pilose, persistent, greenish, deeply 5-lobed; segments obovate or oblong, rounded or triangular at the apex, nearly equal; corolla yellow, membranous, veined, straight or curved, puberulous-glandular outside; tube cylindrical below, funnel-shaped above, 1/6 in. long, 1/20 in. broad below, 1/12 in. broad at the top; limb more or less spreading, about 1/6 in. broad, unequally 5-lobed; lobes rounded or obovate, very obtuse, entire, 1/16– 1/8 in. long; stamens glabrous or nearly so, upper pair inserted on the funnel-shaped corolla-throat, lower pair on the cylindrical portion of the corolla-tube about its middle; filaments filiform, about 1/30 in. long; anthers reniform, 1-celled, uniform, about 1/40 in. broad; style firmly filiform, glabrous or nearly so, 1/12 in. long; stigma small; ovary ovoid, obtuse, glandular-puberulous, rather shorter than the style; capsule oval, obtuse, 1/16– 1/8 in. long, minutely glandular. null
