PLANT: Annual, 5-30 cm tall, usually branched throughout; stems glandular.

LEAVES: glandular and short pilose, reduced above the basal rosette; basal and lower lobed once or twice, the lobes entire to toothed; cauline basally lobed to entire.

INFLORESCENCE: open, with 1-2 pedicelled flowers at branch tips.

FLOWER: calyx 2-3 mm long, glandular pubescent, the lobes acuminate to attenuate; corolla narrowly funnelform to salverform, 7-15 mm long, the tube and lobes white to lavender, the throat yellow; stamens inserted on upper throat; anthers located slightly above the throat; stigma located slightly below or among the anthers.

CAPSULE: 3-6 mm long, ovoid. 2n=18.

NOTES: Washes, bajadas, desert shrublands and woodlands: Coconino Co.; 1150-1700 m (3800-5600 ft); Apr-Jun; s CA to s UT, s to AZ.

REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.