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A herb. It has a woody rootstock and a well developed above ground stem. There can be one or many stems. The plant keeps growing from year to year. It grows 40 cm high. It has white hairs. The leaves are 20 cm long and narrow. There are usually some teeth near the base. There are 4-12 flowers along a stalk. The petals are orange or red. The fruit is a capsule 4-9 cm long by 0.2 cm wide.
Stems 1 to numerous, erect or rarely procumbent, simple or branched, both more or less white-pubescent (the individual hairs crisped) and setose, setae 1–5(7) mm. long, usually dark purple, not bulbous at the base, spreading, more or less dense or sometimes sparse, rarely very sparse.
Peduncles 6–38 cm. long, the uppermost greatly exceeding the stem, pubescent, puberulous or glabrescent and with some sparse, short setae.
Calyx 11·5–16 mm. long, not or sparsely puberulous, with or without short, appressed, pale setae; lobes c. 6 mm. long, oblong.
Longistylous flowers: styles 10 mm. long, with the stigmas exceeding the anthers of the longest stamens.
Capsule 4–8·5 × 0·1–0·15 (0·2) cm., pendulous, with or without short, sparse setae.
Pedicels up to 8 mm. long, setose above, accrescent and deflexed in fruit.
Petals 25–38 × 5–10 mm., orange or bright vermilion to dull brick-red.
Perennial, usually caulescent, with a long vertical woody rootstock.
Flowers (1)4–12(14) per raceme, heterostylous.
Brevistylous flowers: styles 3·5 mm. long.
Seeds 2·5–3·3 × 1·2–1·7 mm., obovoid.
Ovary 4·5–5·5× 1 mm., pubescent.