This vole has yellowish cheeks and a two-colored tail. It eats grasses and berries in summer and stores rhizomes for winter.
Its back is brown with coarse black hairs, while the whisker area and patches near the ears are rusty yellow. The tail is dark above and gray underneath.
It eats grasses and berries in summer and stores rhizomes near its nest for colder seasons. In winter it eats many horsetail rhizomes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.