Plants erect; trichomes tuber-culate throughout, less densely so over the center, (rays often fused at base). Basal leaves: blade margins entire. Racemes not secund, fairly dense in fruit. Fruiting pedicels straight (nearly erect), or sigmoid. Petals yellow. Fruits as wide as or longer than wide, apex rounded-acute; valves glabrous inside; septum complete or 1/3-1/2 perforate; ovules 4-8 per ovary; style 6-9 mm.

Flowering May-Jun. Pine woods; of conservation concern; 1800-2200 m; Calif.

Subspecies bernardina is found near Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.