Stock woody; stems several, stiff, erect from arcuate base, clad in villous hairs, simple or branched; branches ± virgate, hoary with mingled long and short hairs. Lower lvs subopp., rest alt., ± crowded, ascending, sessile or very nearly so. Lamina narrow-lanceolate, 25-50-(65) × 3-8-(10) mm., subcoriac., densely (sts sparsely) hairy, becoming glab.; margins ± entire in lower part, coarsely denticulate towards apex. Fls ± 6·5 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes lanceolate, villous; petals purplish, a little > calyx. Capsules 50-60 mm. or more long, rather stout, densely villous; peduncles 5-12 mm. long, ± pilose. Seeds densely papillose.

n = 18

2n = 36

Robust herb, 20-140 cm tall, usually not branched, with numerous vigorous leafy stolons from base, hirsute, densely covered everywhere with long spreading hairs, and often greyish, usually with a layer of shorter erect hairs and also with glandular hairs in infl. Lvs linear to very narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-6 × 0.2-0.8 cm. Floral tube 0.5-0.9 mm deep, with a conspicuous ring of long white hairs inside. Petals white or rose-purple, 2.8-8 × 1.8-5.2 mm, often < sepals. Capsule densely hairy, 3.5-6 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.6-1.5 cm long.