Japan Flora: Small perennial, loosely white-pubesccnt; stems short, slender, much-branched, with several dense whorls of leaves near top; leaves thick, pale yel­low-green, broadly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 5-12 mm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, very obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole­like base, entire, loosely long-pubescent, without a distinct midrib; scapes 3-4 cm. long, white-pubescent; flowers 2-4, umbellate, white, 5-6 mm. across, the bracts narrowly oblong, obtuse, 2-3 (-4) mm. long, the pedicels 3-5 mm. long, slightly glandular; calyx cup-shaped, 54obed on upper half, the lobes ovate, obtuse, erect; corolla salverform, with a yellow center, the limb spreading, the lobes broadly elliptic; capsules en­veloped by the calyx. July. Alpine.

Hokkaido, Honshu (Mount Hayachine in Rikuchu); rare.--------- Kuriles, Sakhalin, and n. Korea to Alaska, n. China, Siberia, and Turkestan.