Authors: All.
Tufted to colony-forming, spreading by slender rhizomes. Leaves in rosettes, narrowly lanceolate, ciliate. Stems 5-7cm tall, bearing solitary, shapely purple bells 3-4.5cm in length. Southwestern Alps in screes and stony places above 1400m, rare. Not easy in cultivation, needing scree conditions to thrive and then often short-lived (vulnerable to rust in summer), but produces seed freely. [Pl.85]
