Annual herb, stems 20-180 mm tall, solitary to many and then in discrete units crowded together into a small leafy rosette, usually simple, sometimes with a pair of branches low down, glandular-puberulous, plus very occasional tiny balloon-tipped hairs, usually nude, occasionally with a pair of leaves ± halfway. Leaves in 2-3 pairs at base of each stem, crowded, spreading, bases connate, blade 12-35 x 5-13 mm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic tapering to a petiolar part 6-30 mm long (roughly half as long as to nearly equalling blade), margins entire to serrate, both surfaces glandular-puberulous. Flowers many in simple terminal racemes, initially capitate, elongating a little in fruit, lowermost flowers sometimes distant. Bracts (lowermost) 2-4 x 0.6-1.2 mm, lanceolate, acute. Pedicels (lowermost) 2-4 mm long, shorter upwards. Calyx obscurely bilabiate, tube 0.4-0.8 mm long, anticous lobes 3-5 x 0.8-1 mm, anticous lip split 3-5 mm, posticous lobes 2.8-4.5 x 0.6-1 mm, posticous lip split 3-5 mm, all lobes lanceolate, glandular-puberulous all over outside and on margins, hairs to 0.1 mm, very occasional ± sessile balloon-tipped hairs as well, sometimes wanting. Corolla tube 6-9.5 x 1.2-2 mm in throat, cylindric, expanded in ± upper third or half, limb distinctly bilabiate, 7-12 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 2.8-4.5 x 2-3.6 mm, anticous lobe 3-5.4 x 1.7-3 mm, all oblong to oblong-elliptic, margins often revolute, creamy-white, orange/yellow around mouth and in throat, tube puberulous with tiny glandular and eglandular hairs, ± sessile glistening glands on backs of lobes, inside well bearded with clavate hairs all round throat, darkish in posticous position, pale elsewhere. Stamens 4, anticous anthers 0.5-1 mm long, tips just visible in mouth, posticous anthers 1.4-1.8 mm long, included, posticous filaments bearded with dark hairs. Stigma 4-7.5 mm long, shortly exserted or just included. Style 0.5-1.3 mm long. Ovary 1.5 x 1 mm. Capsules 3.5-6 x 2.5-4 mm. Seeds c. 0.5 x 0.3 mm, pallid.
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Annual herb. Stems up to 180 mm high, solitary to many, crowded in a small, leafy rosette, simple or with a pair of low-branching stems, glandular-puberulous, usually nude but sometimes with balloon-tipped hairs. Leaves in 2 or 3 pairs at base of each stem; blade up to 35 mm long, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, tapering to petiolar part ± as long as blade itself. Flowers: many in terminal, simple racemes; stigma much longer than style; corolla tube up to 10 mm long, throat bearded all around inside, corolla tube with either 3-5 longitudinal bands or a broad transverse band of clavate hairs inside upper, swollen part; limb distinctly bilabiate, up to 12 mm in diameter, creamy white, orange/yellow around mouth and in throat; Apr.-Oct.
Annual herb, up to 180 mm high; stems crowded, single to many, these then grouped closely to form a small leafy rosette, rarely branched, often nude. Leaves in several pairs at stem base, spreading, blade up to 35 mm long, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, petiolate. Flowers many in simple, terminal racemes, capitate but somewhat lengthening in fruit. Calyx hardly bilabiate; tube up to 8 mm long; lobes lanceolate. Corolla: tube up to 9.5 mm long; limb clearly bilabiate; lobes all oblong to oblong-elliptic, often revolute, light cream-coloured, orange-yellow around mouth and in throat; tube puberulous with minute glandular and eglandular hairs. Flowering time Apr.-Oct.
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