Plant: annual or biennial herb; 3-23 cm tall; stems angled, winged, simple or branched at the base from a basal rosette of leaves on larger plants Leaves: of basal rosette 4-15 mm long, oblanceolate to obovate, petiolate; cauline leaves 3-25 mm long, 1-2(-3) pairs, narrow linear lanceolate to elliptic INFLORESCENCE: cymose Flowers: 1-several in cymes; pedicels 2.5-5 cm long; calyx lobes linear to linear-lanceolate, 3-8(-10) mm long, the tube 0.5 mm long; corolla pink, rarely white, the tube 7-10 mm long, the lobes 4-5 mm long, elliptic Fruit: cylindric capsules, to 10 mm long; SEEDS oblong to spherical, finely reticulate Misc: In moist soil and gravel areas; 900-1600 m (3000-5200 ft); Apr-May REFERENCES: Mason, Charles T. 1998 Gentianaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 84.