[1] It can be found in moist habitat, such as marshes and other wetlands.

It is a perennial herb growing from a thick, fleshy or woody caudex.

It produces a basal rosette of linear to lance-shaped leaves each up to 25 centimeters long.

[2] The inflorescence arises on a stout peduncle which may exceed a meter in height.

It is topped with one or more dense clusters of white-petaled flowers.