Perennials; (cespitose); caudex branched (covered with persistent petiole remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. Stems unbranched, 0.2-0.9 dm, hirsute throughout, trichomes simple, 0.2-0.8 mm. Basal leaves rosulate; shortly petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.1-1 mm); blade oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5-2 cm × 2-5 mm, margins entire, surfaces pubescent with simple trichomes, 0.15-0.8 mm. Cauline leaves 0. Racemes 4-16-flowered, ebracteate, (subumbellate), slightly elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, hirsute as stem. Fruiting pedicels divaricate to ascending (not decurrent basally), straight, 3-7 mm, hirsute as stem. Flowers: sepals (persistent) ovate, 1.5-2.2 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple); petals (persistent), yellow, spatulate, 3.5-5 × 1.5-2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5-0.6 mm. Fruits ovate to suborbicular, plane, flattened, 3.5-7 × 2.5-5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple, 0.1-0.3 mm; ovules 10-16 per ovary; style 0.4-1 mm. Seeds ovoid, 1-1.2 × 0.7-0.8 mm.
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