Erect variable perennial herb, forming filiform epigaeous stolons with widely spaced small leaves, often terminating in condensed dark small turions; stems 5-70 cm tall, terete, simple or well-branched in larger plants, subglabrous below except for strigillose lines decurrent from the margins of the petioles, dense strigillose above. Leaves sublinear to narrow lanceolate, 1.5-7 x 0.2-1.9 cm, subglabrous except for strigillose margins and veins, entire to obscurely denticulate, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, sessile. Inflorescence nodding in bud, dense strigillose, usually eglandular. Ovaries 2.1-3 cm long, densely canescent. Sepals 2.5-4.5 mm long, strigillose. Petals 3-9 mm long, white or rarely pink. Style 2-3.8 mm long. Stigma clavate to cylindrical, surrounded by anthers at anthesis. Capsules 3-9 cm long, pubescent, on pedicels 1.5-3.5 cm long. Seeds 1.4-2.2 x 0.38-0.54 mm, elliptic-attenuate or fusiform, very finely papillose, the chalazal collar 0.08-0.24 mm long, very conspicuous; comas 5-7 mm long, white, quite persistent.