Plants perennial; roots tuberous. Stems stiffly erect, suffrutescent; trichomes con-spicuous at nodes and in inflorescence; branches (8-)15-30 cm. Leaf blades linear, terete, (4-)8-20(-30) × 0.5-2.8 mm, apex acute to subacute; involucrelike leaves 6-9. Flowers 25 mm diam.; petals orange, brown-orange, copper, or bronze, color often deepening at base, obcordate or emarginate, 7-12 × 4-5.5 mm; stamens 25-35; stigmas 4-7(-8). Capsules subglobose, 2.5-5 mm diam. Seeds leaden, slightly iridescent, 0.5-0.65 mm; surface cells loosely arranged in distinct rows, raised, stellate, tubercles usually present. 2n = 8.
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