Wahlenbergia albens (spreng. ex A.dc.) Lammers

A gray-green bushy shrublet, 20-40 cm high, usually much branched. Stems densely covered with short hairs and appearing gray or white. Leaves alternate, fasciculate, ericoid-rolled, 0.3-1 cm long, gray-green, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs, mucronate at the tip. Lower leaves crowded, the upper shorter and often distant. Inflorescence branched, the branches 1-5 cm long, rigid, finally spinous. Flowers solitary. Calyx lobes flat, 3 mm long, slightly revolute. Corolla white, usually brownish outside, 4.5-6 mm long, the tube 1 mm or less, the lobes cucullate. Bases of the filaments rhombic, acute, densely ciliate. Ovary half-inferior, as wide as or wider than long, the lower part rounded or slightly retuse. Fruit valves shorter than the calyx lobes.