Herbaceous perennials from a simple caudex. Stems to 15 cm in flower, expanding in fruit. Leaves mainly basal, fleshy, alternate, simple, petiolate; blades 2–8 cm long, narrowly cordate-ovate, crenate. Flowers 1 to 2, dish-shaped; sepals 7 to 10, white, often tinged with blue outside, 7–20 mm long; petals absent; stamens 10 or more, pistils 5 or more. Fruit 4 to 15 aggregated, ascending, many-seeded follicles, 1–2 cm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Wet soil of stream banks, meadows where snow melt accumulates; lower subalpine to alpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).