Plant: Perennial herb; to 40 cm tall Leaves: petiolate; blades lanceolate, 5-12 cm long, 1.0-2.5 cm wide, attenuate at base, acute at apex, sparsely villous to glabrate, distinctly, 5- veined below, the margins with a few remote, shallow teeth INFLORESCENCE: pedunculate, scapose; PEDUNCLES 5.5-16 cm long, white-villous. SPIKES 2-10 cm long, interrupted near base; bracts ovate, (1.5-) 2 mm long, ciliate, with tufts of tan hairs in axils Flowers: perfect; sepals broadly elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm long, broadly scarious-margined; corolla lobes spreading or reflexed, subulate to narrowly ovate, 1.2-1.8 mm long; stamens 4 Fruit: FRUITS capsules, breaking well below middle; SEEDS 2, ellipsoid, concave, ca. 1.5 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide, light to reddish-brown, the outer surface slightly reticulate and shiny Misc: Alkaline marshes; 1700-2200 m (5600-7200 ft); Jun-Aug REFERENCES: Huisinga, Kristin D. and Tina J. Ayers. 1999. Plantaginaceae. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).