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

General:
Perennial herb from a taproot and branched, often subterranean stem-base; glabrous throughout; stems several to many, sprawling to decumbent, 10-70 cm long.

Leaves:
Fleshy, with whitish bloom, spoon-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, abruptly sharp-pointed, the lower leaves stalked, the others becoming smaller and nearly unstalked upward, entire, mostly alternate in two rows.

Flowers:
Several to many in compact to open clusters, or solitary in leaf axils; corollas tubular bell-shaped, blue or blue-purple, rarely white, sometimes pink in bud, 3-8 mm long; petals fused at base into a short (1-3 mm) tube, with 5 bulges at the throat, flaring at top to a limb and 5 lobes, the limb longer than the tube.

Fruits:
Nutlets 4, clusterd together, 2.5-4 (6) mm long, smooth or slightly wrinkled, flattened, somewhat fleshy, the outer coat becoming inflated and spongy.