Herbs perennial, efarinose, glabrous. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole conspicuously winged, indistinct to nearly as long as leaf blade; leaf blade obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 5--12(--20) X 1.5--5(--6) cm, base attenuate, margin finely denticulate, apex rounded. Scapes 30--50 cm, elongating to 90 cm in fruit; umbels 3--6, superimposed, 4--10-(--16)-flowered; bracts linear, 5--10 mm. Pedicel 1--2 cm. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 3.5--5.5 mm, parted to 1/3; lobes ovate-triangular, apex acute to subobtuse. Corolla rose-purple; tube ca. 1 cm; limb 1--1.5 cm wide, ± concave; lobes suborbicular to broadly obovate, 3--6 mm wide, emarginate at apex. Pin flowers: stamens 1.5--2 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. 7 mm. Thrum flowers: stamens ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. 1 mm. Capsule ovoid, slightly longer than calyx. Fl. May-Jul. 2n = 22@.
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