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General:
Biennial or more usually perennial herb from short, slender taproot; forming mats or clumps up to 80 cm across; stems usually numerous, decumbent, freely branched, densely white woolly-hairy, 10-35 cm long.
Leaves:
Stem leaves opposite, oblanceolate, grey-hairy to white woolly-hairy, 3-20 mm long and 2-4 mm wide, 1-nerved, unstalked; stipules lacking.
Flowers:
Inflorescence in an elongated cluster; petals 5, white, longer than the sepals, 5-7 mm long; sepals 5, 2-4 mm long, hairy.
Fruits:
Capsules cylindric, 7-10 mm long, 10-valved; seeds 0.6-0.8 mm long.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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