General:
Annual herb from fibrous roots; stems ascending to decumbent, 5-30 cm tall, simple or branched, finely glandular-hairy and clammy especially upward.

Leaves:
Opposite, unstalked, lanceolate to narrowly egg-shaped, 10-40 mm long, entire or remotely toothed toward the tip, short-tapering to the pointed or blunt tip.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of single small flowers on stalks in the axils of reduced upper leaves, the stalks slender, glandular-hairy, 1-2 cm long, with 2 bractlets at the top; corollas tubular, 7-10 mm long, 2-lipped, the upper lip merely shallowly notched, the lower lip 3-lobed, the tube yellow, the lobes white to lavender; calyces 3-7 mm long, the 5 nearly distinct sepals more or less equal, lanceolate, pointed at the tip but not sharply so, accompanied by the 2 bractlets, which are about the same size and shape as the sepals; fertile stamens 2.

Fruits:
Capsules, broadly egg-shaped, pointed, 4-7 mm long; seeds numerous, short-cylindric, net-veined.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Gratiola neglecta var. glaberrima Fernald