Plants biennial, sometimes behaving as winter annual, solitary or tufted, not stoloniferous, with caudex. Leaves basal and cauline, (basal persistent, compact); petiole absent (cuneate base ± petiolelike); blade oblanceolate to obovate, (2-)3(-5)-toothed or shallowly lobed apically, rarely unlobed (distal often so), (lobes forwardly directed), (2-)4-15 mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, stipitate glandular-ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrate to stipitate-glandular. Inflorescences (2-)6-15(-40)-flowered thyrses, (1-)4-25 cm, densely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. Flowers: sepals erect, (usually reddish purple), ovate or triangular to oblong, margins stipitate glandular-ciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular; petals white, not spotted, obovate to oblanceolate, (2-)3-6 mm, equaling or longer than sepals; ovary inferior. 2n = 22.
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