Delicate annual, 60-120 mm tall. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened and slightly succulent, 5-8 x 1-3(4) mm, smooth. Flowers in loose, mostly terminal clusters, on slender pedicels, cup-shaped, petals 2-3 mm long, white, tinged red.
Erect, sometimes sprawling annual to 12 cm. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate to elliptic. Flowers in branched cymes on slender pedicels, cup-shaped, white to reddish, petals 2-3 mm long.