Plant: Annual 10-70 cm; stem erect, 0-few-branched, glandular-puberulent, stiff-hairy

Leaves: alternate, 10-120 mm; blade < or = petiole, oblong to ovate, irregularly toothed

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

Flowers: pedicel 10-20 mm; calyx lobes 4-6 mm, 6-8 mm in fruit, ± linear, sparsely hairy, ± glandular; corolla 10-20 mm, rotate to widely bell-shaped, tube and lower throat white to light violet, limb violet to purple, deciduous, scales fused to filament base, square; stamens 10-20 mm, long-hairy; style 10-20 mm, short-hairy

Fruit: capsule, 6-10 mm, ovoid, beaked, short-stiff-hairy, gland-dotted; Seeds 40-60, ± 1 mm, pitted, oblong to spheric, generally brownish

Misc: Open areas, burns, slopes, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral; < 2400 m.; Mar-Jun