Glabrous to pubescent perennial, taproot thick. Stems several, prostrate or climbing, ± 4-angled, up to ± 3 m long. Leaves narrowly hastate to linear with hastate base, margins entire, 45-70 mm long, basal lobes up to 25 mm long, usually deeply bifid. Peduncles 2-5-flowered, 30-140 mm long; bracts 3-5 mm long; pedicels ± 4-angled, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 6-8 mm long, ± glabrous; sepals broadly ovate or obovate, edges membranous. Corolla 15-22 mm long, white or pale pink; midpetaline areas ± hairy outside near apex. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. Fruit a globose, glabrous capsule, ± 6 mm wide, ± enclosed in calyx. Seeds black, minutely rugose with tufts of minute brown hairs.
Like C. sagittatus but basal leaf lobes often bifid and sepals large, papery, obtuse, with membranous margins, 6-8 mm long, corolla 15-22 mm long.