Annual, glaucescent, minutely puberulent, not glandular, up to 60 cm. Stems simple or branching at base. Lower leaves 4-8 cm., obovate-spatulate to obovate-oblong, tapering at base, upper ones lanceolate or linear, all obtuse, somewhat undulate. In-florescences branched into unequal dichasia. Pedicels of alar flowers slender, long, those of the rest short. Calyx 0.8-1.2 cm., membranous, oblong to obconical, top- to club-shaped in fruit, not umbilicate, puberulent to glabrous, pinkish-white; teeth short, obtuse, ciliate, recurved in fruit. Petals reddish-pink; limb obovate, retuse; coronal scales linear, obtuse. Capsule 7-9 mm., 2-3 times as long as carpophore, ovoid-cylindri-cal. Seeds tuberculate-wrinkled. Fl. March-May.