Plants biennial or perennial, bushlike, perennials with ground-level caudices. Stems solitary, erect, straight; branches distal or along entire stem, proximal or distal longest, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. Leaves: blade 72–295 × 14–45 mm, widest intersinus distance 10.1–23.3 mm; proximal oblanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 16–26, slightly antrorse, 1–16.5 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base clasping or not, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 9–20, slightly antrorse, 5.3–13.7 mm; surfaces with needlelike trichomes. Bracts: margins pinnate. Flowers: petals white, 47–75 × 13–22.7 mm, apex acute to attenuate, glabrous abaxially; stamens white to yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments spatulate, strongly clawed, 48–75 × 12–23 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 36–53 mm. Capsules cylindric, 30–43 × 12–17 mm, base tapering, not longitudinally ridged. Seeds 2.3–4 mm; coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–10 per cell. 2n = 22.
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A grey herb. It can grow for one or more years. The flowers are yellow. There are 5 petals and 5 stemen that look like petals. The seeds do not have wings.
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