General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems often branched, hairless or minutely hairy in part, 5-25 cm tall.

Leaves:
Opposite, unstalked, palmately cleft into 3 to 7 segments 5-20 mm long, or the uppermost leaves entire, the segments thread-like, fringed with bristly hairs; leaves of the inflorescence longer than those below and more densely fringed.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an open, branching, terminal cluster of flowers solitary on long thread-like stalks in the forks and at the ends of the branches; corollas white, lavender or pale blue, yellow in the throats, 2.5-6 mm long, about 1.5 times as long as the calyx, the short funnel-shaped tube spreading to five lobes and with a ring of short hairs in the throat; calyces 1-3 mm long, the 5 teeth lance-triangular.

Fruits:
Capsules, 3-chambered; seeds 2 to 8 per chamber, swelling and becoming sticky when moistened.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Gilia septentrionalis (H. Mason) H. St. John
Linanthus harknessii var. septentrionalis (H. Mason) Jeps. & V. Bailey
Linanthus septentrionalis H. Mason