Short spreading plant, with pointed untoothed leaves. Flowers white, 5 to 6 mm, sweetly scented, petals not notched, in dense clusters at first, but elongating in fruit.

Rocky and sandy places, waste ground usually as an escape from cultivation, and often close to habitation.

Flowers June to September.

Annual.

A widespread casual escape from cultivation in Britain.

Occasional as a casual escape from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 18 of the 617 tetrads.