This small flowering plant has a near-circumboreal distribution and can be found in mountain ranges further south, where grows in alpine climates.

It is a perennial found in low clumps rarely exceeding 20 centimeters in height.

This species has an unbranched stem rising to 150 cm high.

It bears purple or pinkish trumpet-shaped flowers and the fruit is a capsule two or three centimeters long.

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