The tiny lavender flowers grow tightly packed in whorls, with tiny lime-green and purple calyces.
All parts of the plant are covered with sticky glandular hairs, especially the lime-green calyces and the flowers, resulting in the name glutinosa.
The solitary flowers have small white or pale blue lobed corollas tucked within cuplike calyces of hairy, pointed sepals.
Each cluster has up to 6 flowers with pinkish corollas in hairy purple-tinged calyces of sepals.
They are mounted on the flower calyces on long and thin pedicels.
The species are characterized by subterranean stems, peltate leaves at or below the soil surface, and five-lobed calyces.
The flowers are white to light blue and are surrounded by calyces of sepals coated in long hairs.
It is characterised by calyces with 8-16 lanceolate, pointed lobes, 16-32 stamens, explosive release of pollen, and viviparous propagules.
