Plant: perennial herb; Glabrous with globose or elongate, tuberous roots; stems erect to procumbent, ascending, not twining or only slightly at tips Leaves: orbicular in outline, 1-3 cm long, glabrous, palmately dissected to rarely cuneate-obovate, the apex laciniate-dentate, the base cordate, the lobes acute; petioles 2-5 mm long INFLORESCENCE: 1-flowered; peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm long, erect or reflexed in fruit; bracts caducous Flowers: sepals unequal, the outer sepals 5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, oblong, obtuse to acute, mucronate, muricate at least along the midrib, the inner sepals 7-9(-10) mm long, 3-4 mm wide, broadly ovate, acute to acuminate, muricate on the midrib or glabrous; corollas broadly funnelform, 2.5-3.1 cm long, purple, glabrous, the limb 1.8-2.2 cm wide; stamens 8-10 mm long, included, the anthers 1.5 mm long; ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, 2-locular, green, glabrous; styles 13-14 mm long, white Fruit: FRUITS globose, 5-6 mm wide, the apiculum to 5 mm long. SEEDS 1-4, 2-2.5 mm long, ovoid, black to dark brown, finely tomentose Misc: Open rocky slopes; 1350-2600 m (4500-8500 ft); Aug-Sep REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.