It is reported from only Botetourt, Roanoke, Craig, Montgomery, Giles, Wythe, and Pulaski Counties.

[3] It is usually found on soils formed from shale, less often dolomite, limestone or sandstone.

It is erect, up to 45 cm tall with silky, bristly or woolly hairs.

Leaves are thick and leathery, simple but sometimes lobed, up to 12 cm long.

Flowers are bell—shaped, borne one at a time at the tips of branches, pale yellow sometimes with a purplish tinge.