Herbs perennial, cespitose, 2.3-7 cm tall. Stem glabrous, with leaf rosettes. Rosette leaves spatulate to spatulate-lanceolate, 4.5-10 × 1.2-2.3 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous, margin glabrous or sparsely setose-ciliate, apex rounded. Cauline leaves remote, ensiform, 4-6.6 × 1-1.5 mm, carnose, glabrous. Cyme 2-6-flowered or flower solitary; pedicels slender, 4-15 mm, glabrous. Sepals spreading, ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm, carnose, glabrous, veins 3, confluent or not at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow or abaxially purple and adaxially yellow, elliptic or ovate to narrowly so, 3-5 × 1.5-2.5 mm, 2-callose, 3-veined, base tapered into a claw 0.5-1 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 3-4 mm. Ovary subsuperior, dark purple, broadly ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm; styles ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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