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General:
Perennial herb from a slender rhizome; stems trailing to ascending, 10-40 cm long/tall, rooting at the lower nodes, spreading-hairy in 2 lines.
Leaves:
Opposite, unstalked or nearly so, triangular-egg-shaped, 1.5-3 cm long, coarsely blunt-toothed, hairy on the margins and on the veins beneath.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of few, loose, opposite (sometimes alternate), stalked racemes arising from the axils of upper leaves, the racemes of several stalked flowers, the flower stalks 5-9 mm long, ascending, somewhat longer than the alternate, lanceolate bracts; corollas blue with a white eye, saucer-shaped, 9-12 mm across, irregularly 4-lobed, the lobes much longer than the short tube, the lowest lobe narrower than the others; calyces hairy, 4-6 mm long, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, more or less equal; styles 3-5 mm long, exserted; stamens 2.
Fruits:
Capsules, 3-3.5 mm long, wider than long, flattened, heart-shaped, notched at the tip, hairy and with fringed margins; seeds about 6 per chamber, flattened, about 0.5 mm long.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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