Leaves 4-13 mm wide, not glaucous. Flowers actinomorphic; tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale blue or blue-violet, each 3-veined, sometimes 5-veined in outer whorls, 12-20 × 3-5 mm; anthers bright yellow, 3-5 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, with capsules closely appressed to raceme axes, 5-10 mm. Capsules 8-15 mm. Seeds 3-6 per locule.

Flowering mid--late spring. Wet meadows; 100--1500 m; Oreg.