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General:
Perennial herb from a usually branched stem-base; stems erect, solitary to several, simple or branching, greyish woolly-hairy, 40-100 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, slenderly stalked, woolly-hairy, 5-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide; stem leaves opposite, woolly-hairy; 5-10 pairs, often overlapping, gradually reduced upward and unstalked above; stipules lacking.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of several flowers in a loosely branched, open, leafy-bracted cluster, perfect; petals 5, rose-magenta, the stalks of the petals about equalling the calyces, narrow, without earlike lobes at the base, the blade 10-15 mm long, broadly egg-shaped, with 2 linear, sharp-pointed, 2-4 mm long appendages near the base of the blades; sepals 5, lanceolate, united, forming a tube about 15 mm long at flowering time, enlarged but not inflated in fruit, woolly-hairy, 10-nerved, the lobes slender, contorted.
Fruits:
Capsules elliptic, 12-16 mm long, 5-valved; seeds about 1 mm long, purplish-brown, evenly warty-pimply in concentric rows, the pimples bordered with minute teeth at the base.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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