Herbs perennial, lacking basal bud scales, with withered petioles of leaves at base. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole usually 1/2--2/3 as long as leaf blade; leaf blade oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 2--4.5 X 0.9--1.5 cm, tapering to base, abaxially glabrous, adaxially puberulous, pinnately lobed 1/2 way to midvein, apex rounded; lobes narrowly triangular to sublinear, 2--4 mm, margin entire or with 1 or 2 teeth on each side. Scapes 10--15 cm, puberulous; umbels 3--7-flowered; bracts acuminate-subulate from ovate base, 4--9 mm, puberulous. Pedicel 0.6--2 cm, densely puberulent. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 8--9 mm, parted slightly below middle; lobes lanceolate, costate. Corolla white; tube 0.9--1.1 cm; limb ca. 1.5 cm wide; lobes obovate, 3.5--4 mm wide, apex rounded. Thrum flowers with stamens toward apex of corolla tube; style reaching middle of tube. Capsule ellipsoid-cylindric, longer than calyx. Fl. Jun.
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