Psammophiliella muralis - Low Baby's-Breath

Low Baby's-Breath is an erect herb, recognized by its numerous tiny, delicate 5-petaled flowers, tubular sepal-cup with a green and white striped appearance, opposite linear leaves, forking branches, and snail-shell-shaped seeds. Flowers are single at the tips of branching stems and arising on slender stalks from upper leaf axils. Flowers are 0.6-1 cm across with 5 light pink to lavender petals with darker streaks, fused at the base into a slender tube. Inside the tube are 10 white stamens and a split style. The sepal-cup is about 3 mm long with 5 triangular sepals about half as long as the petals. Sepals are green with white edging that extends nearly to the base of the sepal-cup, giving a green and white striped look. Flower stalks are slender and up to 2 cm long. All parts are hairless. This robust plant has hundreds of flowers. Leaves are opposite, lance-linear, pointed at the tip, stalkless at the base, toothless, hairless, the lower leaves up to 2.5 cm long, less than 3 mm wide, becoming smaller as they ascend the stem. Stems are slender, heavily branched throughout with forking branches, sparsely and minutely hairy near the base and hairless above. Low Baby's-Breath is native to Europe to Siberia and W. Himalaya. It is cultivated as a garden plant in cooler parts of India.