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

General:
Low, tufted perennial herb from a taproot and a branched stem-base, usually covered with withered remains of older leaves; stems leafless, 2-4 cm tall, densely covered with long-stalked starlike hairs.

Leaves:
Numerous, egg-shaped-elliptic to oblanceolate, 5-12 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; densely hairy mainly with long-stalked starlike hairs on both leaf surfaces, also with simple and branched hairs; older leaves persistent, withered; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Racemes compressed, 3- to 20-flowered; petals yellow, 4-5 mm long.

Fruits:
Silicles 5-8 mm long, 3.5-5.5 mm wide, oval to egg-shaped, plane; segments thick, often somewhat corrugated, densely and softly hairy with a mixture of simple and branched (almost crosslike) hairs; fruiting stalks about length of silicles; styles 0.6-1.2 mm long; seeds 10-16, 1.5-2 mm long.