Desert Sweet

mountain misery

strong-smelling, evergreen, densely branched, generally stellate-hairy, glandular.

Flower: hypanthium bractlets 0; sepals 5, 2.5--4 mm, lanceolate, acute, abaxially glandular-hairy; petals 5, +- 5 mm, +- round, white; pistils 4--5, ovaries superior, +- fused below, ovules generally >= 2, styles free.

Flower: hypanthium bractlets 0; sepals 5, 2.5--4 mm, lanceolate, acute, abaxially glandular-hairy; petals 5, +- 5 mm, +- round, white; pistils 4--5, ovaries superior, +- fused below, ovules generally >= 2, styles free.

Fruit: follicles, 3--5 mm, red-brown, leathery, dehiscent on inner suture, upper 1/2 of outer.