Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: Moist meadows and steam banks, from low to high elevations.

Flowers: May-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Annual, Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies

Low perennial, often matted, the stems prostrate to ascending, 1-4 dm. long, glabrous.

Leaves opposite, sessile, thin, mostly glabrous, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, the margins smooth.

Flowers axillary and in terminal, leafy-bracteate cymes; pedicles slender, glabrous, 1-4 cm. long, erect to reflexed; sepals 5, lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined, 2.5-4.5 mm. long, 3-nerved; petals from nearly as long as the sepals to wanting.

Capsules narrowly ovoid, about twice as long as the sepals.