Herbs annual or biennial, 30--70 cm tall, densely gray pubescent throughout. Principal roots robust, slightly lignified. Stems erect, simple or branched. Basal leaves oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 4--7 cm × 4--8 mm, midvein prominent, base attenuate into long petiole, apex acute; cauline leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, smaller than basal leaves. Cymules stalked. Pedicel erect, 5--20(--40) mm; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous, ciliate, apex acuminate. Calyx ovoid-campanulate, 6--8 mm, to 1.2 cm in fruit, nearly herbaceous, densely pubescent; longitudinal veins green, cohering at apex; calyx teeth triangular-lanceolate, margin membranous, ciliate. Androgynophore very short or obsolete, pubescent. Petal claws ciliate below; limbs white or pink, oblanceolate, 1--5 mm, subequaling or slightly longer than calyx, bifid; coronal scales ligulate. Stamens and styles included; filaments ciliate at base. Styles 3, shortly hairy at base. Capsule ovoid, 8--9 mm, subequaling or slightly longer than calyx. Seeds gray-brown, globose-reniform, 0.6--0.7 mm, thickened, minutely tuberculate. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Jun--Aug.
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A herb. It can grow for one or two years. It grows 30-70 cm tall. The leaves near the base are spoon shaped or long and sword shaped. They are 4-7 cm long by 4-8 mm wide.
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