Biennial or perennial herbs, erect or ascending, simple or branched from near the base, up to 35 cm high. Leaves 0.7-1.8 cm long, 0.3-1.4 cm broad, elliptic, ovate, or ovate-cordate, acute or subacute, sometimes mucronate, cuneate at the base, or more or less cordate above the petiole-like base, crowded near the base or scattered along the stem. Inflorescence more or less corymbose, of compact, few-flowered cymes; bracts ovate, ovate-rhomboid, or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, firm, erect, more or less spurred at the base when dry. Calyx of 4 segments, each 6-9.5 mm long, boat-shaped, acute, mucronate, keeled or with a wing up to 1.25 mm broad. Corolla yellow; tube 5.5-8 mm long; lobes 6.5-10 mm long, 3.5-5 mm broad, ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded. Filaments 1.25-2.5 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses. Anthers 0.75-1.75 mm long, without glands or each with a minute apical gland. Style and stigma 4-6 mm long, without, or rarely with a stigmatic swelling; stigma clavate, 2-lobed.
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Like S. aurea but flowers larger, calyx 6-10 mm long and petals 6.5-10.0 mm long.