PLANT: Annual, (4-)8-30 cm tall, simple to branched throughout; stems glandular.

LEAVES: glandular and pilose, gradually reduced upwards, simple, oblanceolate to rotund, dentate to shallowly lobed, the teeth or lobes acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE: open, with 1-2 pedicelled to subsessile flowers at branch tips or in axils.

FLOWER: calyx 4.5-7 mm long, sparsely to moderately glandular pubescent, the lobes equal to or longer than the tube, spinulose; corolla funnelform, bright pink to pink-purple, the tube and throat 6-11 mm long, the lobes 3-8 mm long; stamens inserted on the lower throat; anthers located in the upper throat; stigmas slightly exceeding the stamens. calyx 4.5-7 mm long, sparsely to moderately glandular pubescent, the lobes equal to or longer than the tube, spinulose; corolla funnelform, bright pink to pink-purple, the tube and throat 6-11 mm long, the lobes 3-8 mm long; stamens inserted on the lower throat; anthers located in the upper throat; stigmas slightly exceeding the stamens.

CAPSULE: 4.5-7 mm long, ovoid to oblong. 2n=36.

NOTES: 2 subspp., s CA to s UT, s to nw Mex.

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