Erect, reaching 3-5 ft. high; branches ascending, cano-puberulous, glabrescent; leaves erect, incurved-erect or spreading, imbricate, linear, rather blunt, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers in many-flowered umbels, sometimes shortly pedicelled and appearing subcapitate or subspicate, usually cernuous at maturity; pedicels pubescent, crimson, 2-4 lin. long; bracts small and quite remote, or two small and approximate, one median, long and foliaceous; sepals ovate, acute, sulcate, ciliate, about 1/2 lin. long, or lanceolate, acuminate and about 1 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, mouth contracted, 13/4-3 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, white or very pale rose; anthers included, cuneate, subacute from 2/5 to nearly 3/5 lin. long, crested; pore about 3/4 the length of the cell; crests ample, lobed and erosulate at the base, linear above, white, subdiaphanous, about equalling the cell in length; style slightly exserted or just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.
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Compact shrub, up to 800 mm tall. Leaves in whorls of 4. Flowers on red pedicels 5 mm long, bracts, bracteoles and calyx red, tapering into long thin points, corolla bell-shaped, 4 mm long, smooth or hairy, white to pinkish, anthers included.
Erect to somewhat spreading shrub to 1.5 m. Flowers small, ovoid to urn-shaped, pale pink.
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