Looking straight down on plant

Shoots growing from leaf axils

Low plant with a tufted growth habit, having stems prostrate to decumbent. White flowers, with 5 petals, and 10 stamens. Petals are cleft. Flower measured to 18 mm diameter. Axillary shoots are present in leaf axils. Leaves are opposite, oblanceolate, sessile, a lower stem leaf was measured at 1 cm long and 4 mm wide. Stems with downward pointing hairs, leaf upper and lower surface pubescent with short hairs.

Identifiable by axillary tufts.

Height listed in  Budd's Flora to 30 cm, we measured plants to 22 cm tall.

Habitat is open prairie. Common.

We took the above photos on May 31st, prairie roadside, Cypress Hills, about 450 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.

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