Perennial, densely pubescent and rough-granular to the touch; trichomes on short stalks, rays several, distinct, usually bifurcate; stems spreading or erect, simple, about 10 cm long; basal leaves entire, 3-4 cm long, blades elliptical to obovate, narrowed to a long slender petiole; cauline leaves elliptic to obovate, shortly petiolate, 1-2 cm long; inflorescences dense; petals yellow, 7-8 mm long; fruiting pedicels sigmoid, 5-8 mm long; silicles 3-4 mm long, erect, substipitate, globose to ellipsoid or obovoid, valves sparsely pubescent on exterior, glabrous or with a few hairs on interior; styles 3-5 mm long; ovules 5-6 per locule; seeds flattened, neither margined nor winged. Flowers April to July.