- flowers with 3 pink petals, forming a triangle when fresh
- filaments hairy
- similar to Callisia repens, which has white petals and hairless filaments
- colony-forming perennial with creeping fleshy stems
- leaves alternate, ovate, < 1 inch long and < half as wide
- South Texas and northern Tamaulipas, often in shade of older mesquite in clayey to loamy soils
