Cerastium balearicum

Annual with slender taproot; hairs glandular and eglandular. Stems erect or ascending, 1–15(–23) cm long. Leaves 2–12 mm long, 1–5(–7) mm wide; rosette leaves oblanceolate-elliptic, petioles to 5 mm long; upper leaves sessile, ovate. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered; bract margins broadly scarious. Flowers (4–)5-merous; pedicels to 5 mm long; calyx glandular-pilose, sepals ovate, 2.5–5 mm long, acute, margins narrowly to broadly scarious; petals more or less half sepal length or less, acute, entire or with 1–2 acute lateral teeth; styles 4–5. Capsule straight to slightly curved, 3.5–7 mm long; seeds reddish-brown, finely minutely asperate-tuberculate, 0.4–0.5 mm diam. Flowers Aug.–Nov.