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

General:
Annual herb from a slender taproot; stems erect or ascending with several ascending branches near the base, 10-25 cm tall, the shoots grey-hairy with starlike hairs.

Leaves:
Basal leaves lacking; stem leaves narrowly oblanceolate, entire, 5-25 mm long, grey with starlike down.

Flowers:
Inflorescene elongate; flower stalks spreading, 2-5 mm long; flowers less than 3 mm in diameter; petals light yellow, very narrow, 2-3 mm long; sepals about 2 mm long, soft-hairy and with starlike hairs, deciduous shortly after fruiting.

Fruits:
Silicles, 3-4 mm long, round, shallowly notched, glabrous, strongly flattened near the edges and bulging over seeds, 2 seeds in each chamber; style about 1 mm long.