Leaves: blade ± pale grayish green, sparsely beset with pustulate-based hairs. Perianths deep rose-pink; bud minutely pubescent at apex. Fruits 4.2-6.8 mm; equatorial flange 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Flowering late spring-early fall. Gypsum outcrops; 1300-1500 m; N.Mex.