General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems weak, prostrate to ascending, 5-40 cm long, branched at the base, spreading-hairy.

Leaves:
Opposite, stalked, kidney-shaped in outline, 0.5-2 cm wide, wider than long, palmately veined and 3- to 5-lobed or coarse-toothed, squared-off at the base, sparsely spreading-hairy and the margins fringed with long hairs, the stalks up to as long as the blades.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a terminal, elongate, smooth raceme, of several to many stalked flowers solitary in the axils of alternate, full-size leaves, the stalks 5-15 mm long; corollas pale blue, saucer-shaped, 3-6 mm across, irregularly 4-lobed, the lobes much longer than the short tube, the upper lobe largest, the lowest lobe narrower than the others; calyces glandular-hairy, 3-7 mm long, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes broadly triangular, the margins conspicuously fringed with long hairs; styles short, 0.6-1 mm long; stamens 2.

Fruits:
Capsules, 2.5-4 mm long, plump, nearly globe-shaped, wider than long, scarcely notched at the tip, smooth; seeds 1 or 2 per chamber, cup-shaped, cross-wrinkled, 2-3 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia