E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb densely tufted from a taproot; stems ascending, many, clumped, simple, 2-5 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves in multiple dense rosettes terminating the branching vegetative stems, overlapping like shingles, oblanceolate, 4-10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, with star-shaped hairs or forked hairs on the lower surfaces and margins; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a single terminal flower or sometimes 2 flowers; the leafless flower stalks with star-shaped hairs or sparsely so, 1-35 mm long; corollas rose-pink, tubular funnel-shaped, 3-4 mm long, spreading to 5 lobes, the lobes 1-2 mm long; calyces cup-shaped, the tubes 2-3 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes 1.5-2 mm long, egg-shaped to triangular, keeled on and below lobes; bracts lacking.

Fruits:
Capsules, nearly round.