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

General:
Annual herb from fibrous roots, with short, soft, spreading hairs throughout; stems simple or commonly branched from near the base, to 20 cm tall.

Leaves:
Lowermost leaves oblanceolate or wider; middle and upper leaves more oblong or elliptic; to 2 cm long and 7 mm wide, entire, alternate.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of lax, coiled, narrow, elongating clusters, with some flowers nearly to the base of the stems, with leafy bracts; fruiting stalks ascending to spreading, shorter than calyces; petals blue, fused at base into a tube that flares (1-2 mm wide) at top to 5 small lobes; fruiting calyces 3-5 mm long, with hooked hairs on the sepal-tubes and appressed hairs on the lobes.

Fruits:
Nutlets 4, clustered together, egg-shaped, brown, smooth, shining.