Intro: Trailing-leaning perennial found on coastal sand dunes.

Stems: Stems simple or divergently branched from base, slightly woody at base and densely furry.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong to oblong-lance-shaped or elliptic with sharp tips, to 3½ in. long, with some shallow teeth, gray-green and densely furry.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers sessile in upper leaf axils (these leaves reduced in size), bright-yellow (becoming reddish with age), about 1 in. wide, consisting of 4 notch-tipped petals, an elongated calyx tube with 4 reflexed and furry sepals, 8 stamens and a cross-shaped stigma.

Fruits: Fruit a cylindric, usually curved capsule.

Comments: Flowers open in evening.

Height: 4-30 in.

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description: Trailing-leaning perennial found on coastal sand dunes.

stems: Stems simple or divergently branched from base, slightly woody at base and densely furry.

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong to oblong-lance-shaped or elliptic with sharp tips, to 3½ in. long, with some shallow teeth, gray-green and densely furry.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers sessile in upper leaf axils (these leaves reduced in size), bright-yellow (becoming reddish with age), about 1 in. wide, consisting of 4 notch-tipped petals, an elongated calyx tube with 4 reflexed and furry sepals, 8 stamens and a cross-shaped stigma.

fruits: Fruit a cylindric, usually curved capsule.

comments: Flowers open in evening.

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