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Leaves opposite, 0.75–3.5(5) x 0.5–1.25 mm., filiform to narrowly linear, erect to spreading, strict to somewhat flexuous.
Flowers usually opposite, in open racemes, each subtended by a reduced leaf-like bract, pedicellate, bi-bracteolate.
Slender herb, 35–80 cm. tall; stem much-branched above rarely simple; minutely scabrid on all vegetative parts.
Capsule 2.5–3.5 x 2.8–3.5 mm., subglobose, slightly longitudinally compressed, glabrous, dark brown to black.
Calyx 2.5–4.5 mm. long, lobes 0.8–1.4 mm. long, broadly deltate.
Bracteoles 1.3–3.2 mm. long, narrowly linear to subulate.
Slender-branched erect annual herb, 1-2 ft. high
Flowers showy, pink or purple
Anther thecae subequal.
Pedicels 2–4 mm. long.
Drying grey-brown.
