Alpine Catchfly

Description

Tufted and colony-forming, 12-20cm or more tall, spreading by slender rhizomes. Leaves rosetted, linear lanceolate to narrowly obovate, to 3cm or more in length. Flowers white, 1-1.2cm across, each petal with four to six lobe-like teeth and a ciliate claw, in cymes of up to six or more, mid to late summer.