Montana Field Guide

Perennial forming loose cushions from a branched caudex. Scapes solitary, 2–10 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, 4–12 mm long, ciliate, sometimes sparsely hairy. Umbel few-flowered, congested, hemispheric, subtended by lanceolate bracts; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Flowers: corolla white with a yellow center, 4–8 mm across; calyx subhemispheric, ca. 3 mm long. Capsules ca. 2 mm across. Stony, calcareous soil of rock outcrops, fellfields, exposed slopes; subalpine, alpine, occasionally montane (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Stony, calcareous soil of rock outcrops, fellfields, exposed slopes; subalpine, alpine, occasionally montane (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).