Short plants with an erect growth habit. Leaves alternate. Upper leaves linear, lower ones lanceolate, leaves to 18 mm long, 4 mm wide. Flowers consist of 5 white sepals forming a bell shaped tube, flowers 7 mm in diameter, borne in clusters at stem tips. Plant glabrous.

Habitat is dry prairie and hillsides. Common.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm, we measured plants to11 cm tall.

Photo taken May 13th, prairie grassland on the slopes of the Qu'Appelle River valley, 35 km north of Regina, SK, and June 2nd, Old Man on His Back Eco Reserve, 450 km south west of our home in Regina, SK.

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