Plant: Annual 20-60 cm; stem ascending to erect, simple to branched, puberulent and sparsely stiff-reflexed-hairy

Leaves: 15-80 mm; blade > petiole, ± oblong, compound, leaflets toothed or slightly lobed; generally ± reduced upward

INFLORESCENCE: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short

Flowers: pedicel ± 1 mm; calyx lobes 4-6 mm, 7-10 mm in fruit, linear to narrowly elliptic, long-hairy; corolla 8-15 mm, funnel- to bell-shaped, lavender to violet, deciduous, scales 0; stamens 6-12 mm, glabrous; ovary chamber 1 (or 2 below middle), placentas parietal, enlarging and meeting in fruit, style 5-12 mm, short-glandular-hairy

Fruit: capsule, 3-4 mm, ovoid, puberulent; Seeds generally 4, 2.5-3 mm, pitted, oblong to spheric, generally brownish

Misc: Sandy to rocky soils, scrub; 600-2400 m.; May-Jun