Plant: Perennial, rhizomed, forming colonies, generally densely short-glandular-hairy and long-bristly-nonglandular-hairy; longer hairs generally swollen at base; stem erect, simple to few-branched, 20-30 cm, sticky

Leaves: cauline, generally alternate, simple, 2-6 cm, lanceolate to elliptic, margin crenate-dentate

INFLORESCENCE: heads, terminal; pedicels ± 1 mm

Flowers: sepals 8-15 mm, linear-lanceolate; corolla 13-18 mm, ± funnel-shaped, pink, purple, or pale blue, limb 8-10 mm diam, lobes 4-6 mm, 3-6 mm wide; stamens 6-11 mm, attached 4-7 mm above corolla base; styles 1-2, 7-11 mm, stigmas generally head-like

Fruit: capsule, 3-6 mm, generally loculicidal, ovoid to elliptic; Seeds generally many, 1-2 mm, ovoid, red-brown to brown, minutely pitted

Misc: Sandy alluvial flats, gravelly granitic slopes, meadows; 1700-4000 m.; Jul-Aug