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An erect herb. It grows each year from seed. It grows 15-60 cm tall. The leaves are narrow and 1.5-6.5 cm long by 2-10 mm wide. The edges can be curved back. The flowers are white with a blue or pink tinge. The fruit is an oval capsule 7-9 mm long. It is dark brown.
Erect or ascending herb to 60 cm. tall, simple or branched, usually glabrous to sparsely long-hirsute at base, becoming glabrous above, then further above glandular-pubescent.
Leaves 12–30 x 0.3–3 mm. linear to linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, entire, subsessile, margins frequently revolute (at least when dry), glabrous to rarely and remotely ciliate.
Corolla 7–9 mm. long, whitish-pink to pink-purple with darker purple longitudinal venation, throat long-yellow-villous.
Calyx 4–8 mm. long, lobes to 0.3 mm. wide, linear, the longest half again as long as shortest, glandular-pubescent.
Pedicel 0.5–1.5 mm. long in flower becoming slightly longer in fruit, glandular-pubescent.
Inflorescence a lax-flowered raceme, or lower flowers appearing solitary and axillary.
Capsule 7–8 mm. long, brown, glandular-pubescent.
Seeds greyish-brown, c. 1 x 0.5 mm.
