Plant: Perennial, ± woody; bark white; stem: branches opposite; hairs ± shaggy

Leaves: cauline, alternate, clustered, grayish strigose; blade 3.5-11 mm, ovate to round, margin ± crenate, veins 2-3 pairs, shallowly sunken, ± 45 degrees from midvein

INFLORESCENCE: ± axillary, bracted; flowers clustered, sessile

Flowers: calyx 2-3.5 mm, ± deeply 5-lobed, not enlarging in fruit, free ± 1/2 length, hairs within short or 0; corolla 5-9 mm, 4-5 mm wide, 5-lobed, generally ± funnel-shaped, blue, purple, or lavender; style > calyx, style branches 2, branched 1/2 from tip; appendages 0

Fruit: nutlets 1-4, sometimes ± tubercled, deeply 4-lobed; Seed spheric, smooth, shiny

Misc: Sandy gravel soils; < 900 m.; Apr-Jun