Herbs perennial, 1-5 cm tall, cespitose, surculose, scapose. Caudex with many, slender branches terminated in rosettes and covered with petiolar remains of previous years. Stems erect, simple, often densely subhirsute with primarily simple and smaller, subsessile forked trichomes, sometimes with few stellate trichomes. Basal leaves rosulate, persistent; petiole 1-5(-8) mm, persistent and becoming stramineous, often ciliate with simple, setose or subsetose trichomes to 1.4 mm; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 3-10(-15) × (1-)2-4(-7) mm, densely pubescent with whitish, long-stalked, stellate and forked trichomes, adaxially villous with predominantly simple trichomes, rarely softly stellate, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse to subacute. Cauline leaves absent. Racemes 3-7(-12)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated slightly in fruit. Fruiting pedicels 3-9(-12) mm, divaricate or divaricate-ascending, straight or rarely slightly curved, pubescent all around. Sepals oblong or ovate, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, erect, abaxially sparsely pilose or glabrous, base of lateral pair not saccate, margin narrowly membranous. Petals yellow, obovate, 4-6 × 2-3(-3.5) mm, rounded; claw to 1 mm. Filaments 2.5-3 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5-0.6 mm. Ovules 6-10 per ovary. Fruit ovate, 4-7 × 3-5 mm, latiseptate, not twisted; valves glabrous, not veined, base obtuse, apex acute; style 0.5-0.8 mm. Seeds dark brown, ovate, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.
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