Herbs perennial, erect or ascending, with fleshy soboles that leave loose brown basal scales. Stems 15-90 cm tall, simple or branched, strigillose throughout, sometimes mixed with glandular hairs on inflorescence, lacking raised decurrent lines. Leaves subsessile or petioles to 4 mm; cauline blade broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate-elliptic, 1.5-5(-8) × 0.5-2.2(-3) cm, subglabrous with strigillose margin and midvein, base subcordate to cuneate, margin sharply denticulate with 7-22 teeth per side, apex subobtuse to acute. Inflorescence and flowers erect to slightly nodding. Sepals 4.5-6.5 mm, keeled. Petals pink to rose-purple, 7-11 mm. Stigma clavate or broadly so, entire. Capsules 3.5-7 cm, strigillose, often glandular; pedicels 0.4-1.5 cm. Seeds dark brown, 0.9-1.1 mm, coarsely papillose, with short chalazal collar; coma white, detaching easily. 2n = 36.
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