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

General:
Annual herb from a short taproot; stems erect, moderately branched above, decumbent below, 5-15 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves lacking; stem leaves oppposite, linear to oblong, moderately silky woolly-hairy, 0.5-3.5 cm long, 2-6 mm wide.

Flowers:
Heads disciform, usually solitary in leaf axils or at tips of branches; involucres lacking; receptacular bracts hooded and balloonlike, 2.5-3.8 mm long at maturity; female flowers mostly 20-80, rarely as few as 8 in dwarfed forms.

Fruits:
Achenes nerveless, more or less cylindric, glabrous, tipped with a small style, 1.0-1.7 mm long; pappus lacking.