E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Annual herb from a slender taproot; stems erect or spreading, 5-15 (40) cm tall, wiry, usually branched, often sprawling, peeling; hairs spreading, usually coarse, also sparsely glandular-hairy in inflorescence.

Leaves:
Alternate, linear to narrowly elliptic, (5) 10-30 mm long, entire to remotely toothed.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a leafy-bracted, nodding, terminal raceme; flowers unstalked or with short stalks; hypanthium 1.5-2 mm long; petals 3-5 mm long, yellow, fading reddish; sepals 2.5-4 mm long; stamens noticeably unequal, the longer set nearly twice the length of the shorter.

Fruits:
Capsules, linear, 2-4 cm long, only about 1 mm thick, cylindric, swollen by seeds, arched to nearly coiled, nearly stalkless, 4-chambered; seeds in 1 row per chamber, 0.7-0.9 mm long, shiny, minutely pitted.