Bushloving Cryptantha

Description

Plant: Annual 10-60 cm; stem branched throughout; branches prostrate to ascending, generally sprawling over rocks, other plants, - fragile, strigose to appressed-stiff-hairy Leaves: 0.5-3 cm, simple, entire, linear to lanceolate; bristles ascending to - appressed; cauline generally opposite below, alternate above INFLORESCENCE: cymes, axillary and terminal, open in fruit; flowers - appressed Flowers: calyx asymmetrical, sepals free, - 1 mm, 2-3 mm, folded, oblong in fruit, generally bristly, some bristles > sepal; corolla generally white, tube generally 1-13 mm, appendages 5, white to yellow; corolla limb 0.5-1 mm wide; anthers included; ovary generally 4-lobed Fruit: Fruit: nutlets 4 (1 generally > other 3), 2-2.5 mm, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, back generally white-granular, groove on inside surface - open throughout, not generally flared or forked at base Misc: Sandy or gravelly soils, generally under other plants; 200-1500 m.; Apr-May