Annual. Stems slender, lax, simple or branched, 8–35 cm. Herbage hispid, strigose. Leaves linear to oblanceolate, 1–5 cm long. Inflorescence ebracteate. Flowers: calyx hispid, hirsute, 3–5 mm long in fruit; corolla ca. 2 mm long. Nutlets 4, ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, smooth; scar closed, widened at the base (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Sparsely-vegetated soil, talus of woodlands, open forest, grasslands, sagebrush steppe, often in partial shade around the base of trees; plains, valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).