Cerastium diffusum

Annual with slender taproot; hairs dense, glandular and few eglandular. Stems decumbent, diffusely-branched, 7–30 cm long. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate to ovate, 5–20 mm long, 2–7(–10) mm wide, acute. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered; bracts entirely herbaceous. Flowers usually 4-merous; pedicels longer than sepals, much longer than capsule; calyx glandular-pilose, sepals ovate to lanceolate, 4–9 mm long, acute to acuminate, herbaceous or margins narrowly scarious; petals three-quarters the length of sepals, c. one-fifth bifid; styles 4(–5). Capsule usually straight, 5–10 mm long; seeds chestnut-brown, colliculate to bluntly tuberculate, 0.4–0.7 mm diam. Flowers Sep.–Nov.