Leaves 6-13 mm wide, not glaucous. Flowers usually zygomorphic; tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale bluish violet, each usually 5- or 7-veined, occasionally 3-veined in outer whorls, 20-35 × 5 mm; anthers bright yellow, 5-7 mm; fruiting pedicel strongly incurving, with capsules closely appressed to raceme axes, 35-60 mm. Capsules 7-19 mm. Seeds 6-10 per locule.

Flowering mid--late spring. Fields, pastures; 300--1000 m; Oreg.