Neatostema apulum

Annual herb, 10–25 cm high, erect; branches 1–several, mostly from base, covered with a mixture of long, coarse, spreading, broad-based hairs and finer appressed hairs. Leaves hispid, apex acute; rosette leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1–4 cm long, 2–4 mm wide; cauline leaves linear-lanceolate. Bracts as long as or longer than sepals. Sepals linear, 3–4 mm long, acute, elongating to c. 6 mm in fruit, hairy; corolla 4–5 mm long, with tufts of hairs in throat, yellow, lobes oblong to more or less square, c. 1 mm long, much shorter than tube; anthers c. 1 mm long. Mericarps 1.5–2 mm long, pale brown. Flowers mainly Oct.–Dec.