Taproots gradually ramified distally. Stems procumbent to suberect, 10-50(-60) cm. Leaves: basal leaves evergreen, sessile or abruptly or gradually narrowing to broad petiole, blade narrowly obovate to spatulate, flattened, (2-)2.5-8(-14) cm, margins finely toothed to coarsely triangular-toothed, apex truncate, emarginate, retuse, or rounded; cauline leaves absent, or alternate or in suprabasal rosettes, similar to but smaller than basal leaves and intergrading with bracts, 3-12 mm. Inflorescences loosely paniculate cymes, 30-100-flowered; bracts several, alternate or opposite proximally, 2 at each flowering node distally, ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 1-4 mm, margins glandular-toothed, apex acute. Flowers pedicellate, not disarticulate in fruit; sepals 2, suborbiculate to broadly elliptic, 2-3 mm, herbaceous at anthesis, margins glandular-toothed, rarely eglandular, apex rounded to truncate; petals 5-7, white to pale pink, veins darker pink, elliptic, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-obovate, 5-9 mm; stamens 5-6; stigmas 3; pedicel 0.3-8 mm. Capsules 3 mm. Seeds 1-3, 1.2-1.5 mm, shiny, ± smooth. 2n = 28.
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