General:
Perennial herb, shrubby at the base, from a stout taproot; stems usually numerous, erect, 20-80 cm tall, brittle, minutely hairy and also glandular-hairy in the inflorescence.

Leaves:
Opposite, unstalked or the lower short-stalked, lance-oblong, jaggedly toothed to irregularly pinnately cleft, to 7 cm long, smooth to minutely frosty-hairy on the upper surface.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a narrow terminal raceme or open branched panicle, of several to many short-stalked flowers; corollas magenta to rose-pink, tubular, 2-3.5 cm long, glandular-hairy on the outside, smooth within or with a few, long white hairs near the mouth, distinctly 2-lipped, the lower lip striped within; calyces 4-9 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate to egg-shaped, green or bluish, usually unequal and entire; fertile stamens 4, the anthers horseshoe-shaped, fringed with hairs on the sutures; sterile stamen short-exserted, long-bearded at its scarcely expanded tip.

Fruits:
Capsules, 5-8 mm long; seeds numerous, about 1 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia