PLANT: Annual; stems 1-5 dm. LEAVES: subsessile, entire, 1-6 cm long, the lower cauline leaves linear to lanceolate, the upper leaves narrowly lanceolate. INFLORESCENCE: terminal, rarely axillary, compact, the bracts ovate to lanceolate, 8-20 mm long, 3-6 mm wide, the lower margins glandular. FLOWERS: calyx lobes acuminate; corollas salverform, 8-15 mm long, bluish violet to nearly white; pollen cream to blue; style equal to the corolla tube. CAPSULE: 3-5 mm long. NOTES: Open sites, meadows, pine forest: Apache, Coconino cos.; 6500-8000 ft; Jun-Jul-(Sep). W Can to CA and NM. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.