Herbs perennial, 3-15 cm tall, with slender, branched caudex, glandular, glabrous or sparsely shortly pilose. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole 1-4 cm, usually ciliate, expanded at base; leaf blade oblanceolate or oblong, (1-)2-5(-8) cm × 3-7(-10) mm, glabrous or glandular, base cuneate, margin pinnatipartite, sinuate-dentate or entire, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers in racemes. Fruiting pedicels 3-10(-15) mm, glabrous. Sepals purplish, ovate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm. Petals purple, broadly obovate, 6-10 × 3-5 mm, obtuse at apex; claw 3.5-5 mm. Filaments 3-5 mm; anthers oblong, 1-1.5 mm. Fruit linear-cylindric, 1-1.5(-1.7) cm × ca. 2 mm, corky, strongly torulose, with 2-6 constrictions on each side, glabrous or glandular; style 1.5-3 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, ca. 1.3 × 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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A cabbage family herb. It is a small plant with a ring of leaves near the ground. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are narrow and have narrow lobes along the stalk. The leaves are 2-6 cm long. They are rounded sword shape in outline with a round lobe at the end. The side lobes are blunt and hairy. The stems are short and the flowers are in loose clusters. The flowers are pink, violet or white. The flowers are 1 cm across. The petals are 6-10 mm long and have shallow notches. The fruit are about 1.5 cm long and rounded. They are hairy and constricted between the seeds.
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