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Flowers up to 4·5 cm. in diam., white sometimes tinged with pink, drying yellow, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves or in terminal racemes; peduncle 0·6–6 cm. long.
Erect annual or perennial herb with rhizomatous rootstock; stems ± appressed-stellate-setulose-pubescent, branched from the base.
Epicalyx of 7–10 bracts 3·5 mm. long, filiform to narrowly linear, setulose-pubescent.
Calyx up to 8 mm. long; lobes 4–5 × 2–4 mm., ovate, joined for 2–3 mm. at the base.
Petals 15–20 × 10–15 mm., obovate, stellate-pubescent outside, glabrous inside.
Staminal tube 8–9 mm. long; free parts of filaments 0·5 mm. long.
Flowers white with pink veins, turning yellow, over 1 in. diam.
Capsule 8–15 mm. in diam., depressed-globose, 5-angled, hispid.
Seeds 3·5 × 3 mm., with short dense brown scale-like hairs.
An erect, scabrid fibrous perennial, 2–3 ft. high
Style-branches 2–2·5 mm. long, glabrous.
