Annual, puberulent or hispid to appressed-pubescent, not glandular, 10-30 cm. Stems decumbent to erect, simple or more or less branching. Leaves 3-10 X 0.15¬1.5 cm., the lower ones obovate-spatulate or oblong-lanceolate to oblong-linear, the rest oblong-linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, all more or less ciliate. Inflorescences monochasial, usually few-flowered. Bracts unequal. Pedicels shorter than calyx, shorter or longer or the lower as long as or longer than bracts. Calyx 1-2 cm., cylindrical, ovoid to club-shaped in fruit, umbilicate, hairy throughout or along nerves only, rarely scabrous and subglabrous, red-, purple- or green-nerved; teeth 1.5-4.5 mm., ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acute, ciliate. Petals varying in length, with claw usually long-exserted from calyx; limb pink-lilac to whitish, 2-partite into oblong-linear to narrowly obovate-spatulate lobes; coronal scales obovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, rarely retuse. Capsule about as long as to twice as long as carpophore, ovoid. Seeds 1 mm. or more in diam., ear-shaped with undulate wings at margin, almost smooth to somewhat tuberculate on faces and deeply grooved on back. Fl. February-April.