Herbs biennial or perennial, canescent or silvery so. Stems 2-5 dm tall, erect, simple or branched above, densely pubescent with a mixture of long, simple, setose trichomes mixed with smaller branched ones. Basal leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, repand or deeply divided, densely pubescent to canescent, 3-6 cm; middle cauline leaves sessile, auriculate to amplexicaul, 2-8 ´ 0.5-2 cm, pubescent at least on midvein, dentate to subpinnatifid. Racemes elongated considerably in fruit; fruiting pedicels divaricate, pubescent,4-10 mm. Sepals oblong, pubescent, ca. 2 mm; petals white, narrowly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 3-4 ´ to 1.3 mm; 90-1i0 per ovary. Fruits oblong-linear, 1-2 cm ´ 2.5-3 mm, divaricate-ascending, terete; valves glabrous inside and outside; style obsolete or to 0.2 mm. Seeds oblong, biseriate, 0.5-0.6 mm.
Flowering: Jun-Oct.
Habitat: steep slopes, hillsides, shade of shrubs.