Plants 5-18(-30) cm. Basal leaf blades oblanceolate, (30-)60-100(-150) × 6-12 mm, apices obtuse to rounded. Cypselae strigillose only distally.

Flowering Jul-Sep. Alpine meadows, usually in wet or moist areas, lake edges, clearings in subalpine pine-fir woods, sometimes along ridges; 1400-2100(-2400) m; Oreg., Wash.