Evergreen subshrub. Stems slender, trailing; short erect shoots 1–6 cm. Herbage glabrate to pubescent, glandular above. Leaf blades ovate to suborbicular, shallowly dentate above, 7–20 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, of 2 pedicellate, nodding flowers opposite each other on a scape 3–8 cm long. Flowers regular, 5-merous; sepals linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm long; corolla funnelform, light pink, hairy within, 8–14 mm long; stamens 4. Fruit a round, glandular-hairy, ovate achene 1–2 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are variety
longiflora Torrey.