Roots tuberous, usually with carrot-shaped rootlets. Stems numerous, simple, erect or ascending, leafy, 8-15 cm. Leaves alternate, pseudopetiolate; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, narrowly oblanceolate, or oblong, margin entire or sparsely serrate to lobed, apex obtuse to acuminate. Cyme flat topped, 3-5 cm; pedicels 2-3.5 mm. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 mm, apex subacute. Petals reddish. Stamens subequaling petals; filaments white; anthers purple. Nectar scales subsquare, apex emarginate. Carpels erect, ovoid-lanceolate. Styles ± recurved, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep.

Rock crevices in mountainous areas; 1000-3000 m. Hebei, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi [Mongolia].