“ A perennial herb, small, bristly, blackish green color, with a pillow bearing dense caespitose, with erect stems and short, covered with hairs, leaves small, opposite, from obovate to linear-spatulate, faired- triangle on the lower, dense and sessile towards the apex of the stem, with the edges of sparse eyelashes, not glandulifere, slightly curved at the top, flowers pink or purple, solitary, sessile or slightly stalked, borne by a glass tube with hairless with teeth ciliate, 5 petals rights obovali, longer teeth calicini, and confined to the nail, 10 stamens on purple filaments, the long half of the petals, short stylus. The fruit is a globular capsule containing seeds with papillose ornamentation. It flowers from JulyAugust, from 1700 to 3500 m above sea level, on the rocks of the high mountains where snow persists. Present throughout Italy with the exception of Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia. „