E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from a thick, fleshy root; stems 1-several, erect to decumbent at the base, usually tufted, minutely short-hairy, grooved, 10-35 cm tall.

Leaves:
Stem leaves opposite, egg-shaped to oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 pairs, 1-4 cm long, 4-9 mm wide, margins rough-hairy, lowest few pairs reduced to bracts.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a raceme-like terminal cluster of few to numerous, stalked flowers; corollas blue or bluish, 2-3 cm long, narrowly funnelform, the lobes egg-shaped, spreading, the plaits between the lobes cleft and unevenly toothed; calyx tubes 3-9 mm long with 5 flaring unequal lobes 4-6 mm long; stamens shorter than the corolla tubes; anthers 2.5-4 mm long.

Fruits:
Capsules, 1-chambered; seeds elliptic, flattened with broad, winged margins, finely net-veined.