Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest along the coast in southwestern Washington; southwestern Washington to northern California.

Habitat: Coastal bluffs and rocks.

Flowers: March-April

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees

Slender, lax, herbaceous perennials, up to 1 dm. tall, with prominent brown-woolly tubers, the herbage with soft, glandular hairs.

Leaves mostly basal, the blades reniform-orbicular, 1-4 cm. wide, palmately veined and coarsely dentate; petioles well-developed, their bases expanding and overlapping; cauline leaves few and low on the stem, or none.

Inflorescence several-flowered, racemose, compact on naked peduncles, scarcely surpassing the leaves, the pedicels less than 1 cm. long; calyx divided nearly to the base, the 5 lobes long; corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, white with a yellow eye, 6-11 mm. long and wide; stamens 5; style 2-3 mm. long, 2-parted.

Capsule 2-celled, ovules numerous.