Plant: annual herb; 5-20 cm high, glabrous

Leaves: lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, obtuse or acute, not apiculate, mostly 4 per node, in 2 unequal pairs, the larger pair 10-21 mm long, the upper nodes often 2-leaved

Flowers: perfect, solitary in axils, the long pedicels bent away from the leaves, sharply reflexed below fruit; corolla generally 3-lobed, glabrous, cleft about 2/3 of their length, white, the lobes ascending, ovate, obtuse, shorter than ovaries

Fruit: FRUITS with short uncinate hairs; mericarps joined 2/3 of their length, nearly separated at maturity

Misc: Open meadows or shady slopes; 1700-2600 m (5500-8600 ft); May-Jun

REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.