Annual, up to 150 mm tall. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes keeled, stamens inserted shortly below corolla sinuses, anthers each with a small, round, shortly stalked, apical gland and 2 bigger, shortly stalked, basal glands, style swelling below or confluent with stigma.
Like S. rara but to 15 cm, anthers with 3 glands.