Low growing plant, 3 to 4 cm tall, flowers with bright white petals borne on short stalks. Flowers to 3 cm in diameter. Leaves are linear to narrowly spatulate, to 3 cm long including petiole, and 2 mm wide. Leaves are pubescent top and bottom, giving the foliage a greyish green colour.

Plant is described as perennial in all the field guides. I have grown this from seed for many years in our rock garden, from wild collected seed the plants have always been biennial.

Habitat dry prairie hilltops.

Photos taken May 12th and May 13th on the grassy slopes of the Qu'Appelle Valley, 35 km north of Regina, SK and May 17th on a stony hillside, Buffalo Grass Eco Reserve, 200 km south east of our home in Regina, SK.

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