Plants (4-)8-40(-70) cm. Basal leaf blades linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, (30-)80-120(-350) × (1-)2-6(-9) mm, apices acute. Cypselae strigillose. 2n = 18, 36.

Flowering Jun-Sep. Bogs (sometimes with Darlingtonia), marshes, moist to wet meadows, lake edges, pine woods, alpine tundra; (1200-)1500-3300(-3700) m; Calif., Nev., Oreg.