Bernice Bjornson had this this to say about Comandra umbellata ssp. pallida in 1946:  “It is a perennial herb about one to two feet high growing in occasional patches on our sandy foothills. Its flowers are without petals, but its sepals are whitened at their tips, sometimes showing a pink tinge also. The leaves are entire, alternate and usually without a leafstalk. The horizontal underground stem has an indigo blue cortex.”