Description: Low shrubby perennial with woody rootstock, 12 - 25 cm
(4.7 - 9.8 in.) tall. Stems prostrate, woody at base with dark brown exfoliating bark; herbaceous above, slender, straw colored, often purple tinged. Leaves nearly hairless, somewhat glaucous, green or purplish, with small teeth and tipped with a stout rigid gland; lower leaves opposite, obtuse, to 1.5 cm (0.6 in.) long, and to 3 mm (0.12 in.) wide; upper leaves alternate, narrower, and reduced. Inflorescence a loose raceme. Flowers sessile or on short glandular stalks; sepals glandular, reddish tinged, with teeth turned backwards when flowers open; petals rosy-purple, 6 - 7 mm (0.3 in.) long, notched at the tip; style 10 mm (0.4 in.) long, bearing four lobes. Fruit a capsule, glandular pubescent. Seeds small, brown, with a tuft of white hairs 5 mm (0.2 in.) long. Time of flowering: July to September.
Habitat: Limestone slopes with outcrops or talus. Elevations:
1,830 - 2,800 m (6,000 - 9,200 ft).
Range: Clark, Eureka, and Lincoln counties, Nevada. Known from Kyle and Fletcher canyons in the Spring Mountains. Also found in Washington County, Utah.
Comments: Distinguished from other Epilobium in the area by having a minute corolla tube, rosy-purple (not red) petals, and style with four lobes.