Johnstonella pusilla (Torr. & A.Gray) Hasenstab & M.G.Simpson / Homotypic Synonyms: Cryptantha pusilla (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene, Eritrichium pusillum Torr. & A.Gray, it is a densely branched annual herb, up to 45 cm tall with adpressed white hairs. Leaves linear, 10-20 (-30) x 1-1.5 (-2) mm, entire, acute-obtuse, sessile. Calyx 5-partite, lobes linear, c. 4 mm long, increasing up to 8 mm in fruit, densely hairy all over. Corolla mostly pale yellow, rarely white, tube 2-3 mm long, scales ± oval, lobes rotate, c. 0.5 mm broad. Stamens inserted below the middle of corolla tube, c. 1 mm long; anthers ovate with filiform filaments. Stigma shallowly bilobed; style less than 1 mm long. Nutlets brown glossy, tuberculate, ovate, somewhat rostrate at the apex, 1.25-1.5 x 1 mm with a thickened rim on the side of the attachment with the receptacle.
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