Japan Flora: Glabrous perennial 10-30 cm. high, ascending to decumbent, with slen­der short rhizomes; radical leaves obovate or broadly elliptic, 2-6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, entire, rounded to very obtuse, gradually narrowed to a petiolelike base, minutely brown- spotted, the cauline leaves abruptly narrowed to a short petiole- like base, 1-3 cm. long; racemes often leafy at base, loosely 10- to 20-flowered, 4-10 cm. long, the pedicels ascending- spreading, slender, 1-2 cm. long, the bracts minute, near the middle of the pedicel; flowers white, about 1.5 mm. across; calyx accrescent after anthesis, the teeth deltoid, minute; cap­sules globose, about 2.5 mm. across.  June-Aug.

Hokkaido, Honshu. N. America.