Plants loosely cespitose cushions with branched caudex. Stems prostrate to ascending with marcescent, imbricate, gray to light brown leaves. Leaves spreading to erect, thin; blade linear-subulate, 4–10 × 0.5 mm, margins entire, ciliolate, hairs simple, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. Scapes 5–20 mm, elongating little in fruit, densely hairy, hairs branched and stellate. Inflorescences 1–2-flowered, ebracteate or bracteate; bracts 1–3, subulate, 2–3 × 0.5 mm, hairy, hairs simple or forked. Pedicels present, 0.5–10 mm. Flowers: calyx 4–8 × 3–5 mm, glabrous or slightly hairy, hairs branched and stellate; corolla rose-pink, limb 6–10 mm diam., lobes 3–5 × 1–2 mm, margins erose or entire.
