Herbs acaulescent or short-caulescent, hirsute and glan­dular puberulent, or glabrous. Stems (if present), usually unbranched, rarely with 1–several short laterals, 4–8 cm. Leaves (6.8–) 9.5–23 (–32) × (1.3–) 2.4–4.5 (–6.5) cm; petiole (3–) 4–11 (–14) cm; blade oblanceolate to spatulate, margins often undulate, usually regularly to irreg­ularly dentate, rarely coarsely and irregularly pinnately lobed. Flowers: floral-tube (45–) 75–110 (–153) mm; sepals (22–) 30–45 (–50) mm; petals fading pink to pale rose, (21–) 35–43 (–50) mm; filaments (16–) 19–28 (–35) mm, anthers (10–) 12–17 mm; style 85–180 mm. Capsules somewhat curved, lanceoloid-cylindrical to cylindrical, symmetrical throughout, sometimes slightly flattened on one side at base, (17–) 25–45 (–56) × 5–8 mm, valve margins with conspicuous, nearly smooth to irregular undulate ridge; pedicel 2–7 mm. Seeds narrowly obovoid, 2.5–3 × 1–1.4 mm, embryo 1/2 of seed volume, surface minutely papillose to reticulate; seed collar forming narrow slit above raphe with a slightly sunken membrane, margin entire or obscurely sinuate distally. 2n = 14, 28.

Phenology: Flowering May–Jul(–Sep).
Habitat: Open, igneous rocky slopes, talus, roadcuts, open or shaded and sandy or gravelly sites along streams, rarely on shale, in upper pinyon-juniper woodlands, Gambel oak scrub, ponderosa pine forests, ponderosa pine-Douglas fir forests, spruce-fir-lodgepole pine forests.
Elevation: 2000–3100 m.

Distribution

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Colo., N.Mex., Utah, Wyo.

Discussion

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