General:
Annual herb from a small taproot; stems erect or ascending, simple to freely branched, 10-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate or spoon-shaped, soon deciduous; stem leaves opposite, lanceolate, 1-3 cm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an open raceme-like cluster of terminal or mostly axillary flowers on long slender stalks from the upper leaves; corollas blue or white, 6-15 mm long, 4- to 5-lobed, the lobes cleft nearly to the base, elliptic to egg-shaped, often purple-veined, each lobe with a pair of fringed, scale-like appendages at the base; calyces deeply 4- to 5-lobed, the lobes linear to linear-lanceolate, about 4/5 the length of the corollas; stamens nearly 1/2 the length of the corollas; anthers 2 mm long.

Fruits:
Capsules, cylindric, 1.0-1.7 cm long, slightly longer than the corolla; seeds oblong, prismatic, wingless, brown, deeply few-pitted.

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:
Lomatogonium rotatum subsp. tenuifolium (Griseb.) A.E. Porsild
Pleurogyne rotata (L.) Griseb.