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General:
Perennial herb from a horizontal rhizome, the roots brownish; stems erect, solitary, simple, 5-40 cm tall.
Stems:
Scapes glandular-puberulent, 5-30 (40) cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves spade-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, usually less than twice as long as wide, 2-15 cm long, irregularly round-toothed to almost entire, commonly rounded or squared-off at the bases, abruptly narrowed to distinct, winged stalks nearly the same length as the blades; stem leaves lacking.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a compact, terminal, involucrate umbel of 2 to 7 glandular, stalked flowers, floral parts in 5's, the stalks 0.5-4.5 (5) mm long; corollas magenta to lavender, deeply lobed, the lobes 8-15 mm long, bent back; calyces lobed, the lobes 2.5-3.5 mm long, the tubes 1.5-2.5 mm long; filaments deep purple-red, less than 1 mm, sometimes 1.5 mm long, free or shallowly united; anthers 4-5 mm long, the connective tissue black and smooth; stigmas not conspicuously enlarged, less than twice as wide as the styles; corollas and stamens deciduous as capsules mature.
Fruits:
Capsules, 7-12 mm long, cylindrical, the tips coming off like lids.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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