Annual or biennial herb. Stems absent. Leaves radical, pubescent on both surfaces, spreading, ovate-rounded, 5-15 mm in diameter, flat, the margins deltoid-toothed, truncate or wedge-shaped at base, petiolate; petioles 1-3 cm long. Scapes 5-15 cm long; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 4-5 mm long; pedicels pubescent, spreading, slender, 2-4 cm long; calyx spreading, 5-parted nearly to the base, the lobes ovate, 3-5 mm long in anthesis, 4-7 mm long in fruit, pubescent, acute; corolla white, 4-5 mm across, 5-lobed. Capsules ovoid-globose, about 4 mm long, with 5-whitish membranaous valves. Seeds many, glabrous.

TAIPEI: Kungliao, Liao 1126, Nankang, Academia Sinica, Wang 921. ILAN: Nanfangao, Peng 13737; Nanao, Liu 526. HSINCHU: Shimada 3977. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is, Liao 1168; Lutao Is, Peng 10848. HUALIEN: Tiensiang, Kao 9866; Fengpin, Wang 848.

Distributed in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and eastern Asia. Seacoast and fields to low altitude in Taiwan.

Phenology: biennial, annual

Life form: herb

Root: rooting at node or not: not rooting at node

Stem: absent

Leaf: position: basal

Phyllotaxy: radical

Leaf: petiole: petiolate

Leaf: petiole length (mm): 10-30

Leaf: blade shape: ovate

Leaf: blade apex: obtuse

Leaf: blade base: truncate

Leaf: blade margin: toothed

Leaf: blade surface: pubscent

Leaf: blade texture: herbaceous

Leaf: blade length (mm): 10-15

Leaf: blade width (mm): 10-15

Inflorescence: umbellate

Inflorescence: position: terminal

Scape: present

Scape: length (mm): 40-120

Peduncle: length (mm): 20-40

Bract: present

Bract: length (mm): 3-5

Bract: width (mm): 1.5-3

Calyx: shape: 5-parted

Sepal: shape: ovate

Sepal: margin: entire

Sepal: length (mm): 3-5

Sepal: width (mm): 1.8-2.7

Corolla: color: white

Corolla: shape: funnelform, salverform

Lobe: margin: entire

Lobe: length (mm): 2-3

Lobe: width (mm): 1.3-1.8

Filament fused into a ring or not: filament free

Filament inserted position: throat of corolla lobe

Filament: indumentum: glabrous

Filament and anther relative length: filament obviously shorter than anther

Stamens protruding from corolla or not: Stamens not protuding from corolla

Capsule: dehiscence type: longitudinal

Distribution: seashores, low elevation cultivated field