[1] This plant has a circumboreal distribution, and can be found further south in mountainous areas.

This is a hairy perennial growing spindly stems sometimes exceeding half a meter in height.

Its stems have spaced oval to linear leaves two to seven centimeters long.

The stems are tipped with hairy inflorescences of small white or pink flowers.

[2] Each flower has four petals which may be quite minute to almost a centimeter long and notched to form two lobes.