Erect viscid annual 10–70 cm high, covered by soft glandular and stiff eglandular hairs. Leaves opposite below, often alternate in upper parts, narrow-ovate to elliptic, 10–42 mm long, 3–12 mm wide, apex acute, base rounded, margins toothed, upper leaves with about 6–10 pairs of teeth. Racemes dense with many subsessile flowers, elongating slightly in fruit. Calyx 10–17 mm long, finely ribbed; corolla 15–24 mm long, yellow, not persistent in fruit; anthers yellow. Capsule narrow-ovoid, 11–18 mm long, densely eglandular-strigose. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
LoM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, Tas., New Zealand. Native to Mediterranean region. Locally common weed of cooler, well-watered areas in southern and western Victoria.
