Intro: Erect, sometimes bushy annual found in fields, dry clearings and woodlands, woodland borders, rock outcrops, barrens and exposed, eroding sites.

Stems: Stems rigid, with many ascending, wing-angled branches.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to almost needle-like, to 3/4 in. long, numerous and ascending (close but not pressed to stem).

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils on short stalks, scattered abundantly along leafy branches; yellow; consisting of 5 oblong-oval or asymmetrically-shaped petals (giving a pinwheel effect), 5 lance-shaped sepals (usually as long as or longer than petals) and an erect cluster of stamens and a pistil in the center.

Fruits: Fruit an erect, reddish, oval capsule.

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Height: 4-20 in.

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description: Erect, sometimes bushy annual found in fields, dry clearings and woodlands, woodland borders, rock outcrops, barrens and exposed, eroding sites.

stems: Stems rigid, with many ascending, wing-angled branches.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to almost needle-like, to 3/4 in. long, numerous and ascending (close but not pressed to stem).

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils on short stalks, scattered abundantly along leafy branches; yellow; consisting of 5 oblong-oval or asymmetrically-shaped petals (giving a pinwheel effect), 5 lance-shaped sepals (usually as long as or longer than petals) and an erect cluster of stamens and a pistil in the center.

fruits: Fruit an erect, reddish, oval capsule.

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