Phyllaries imbricate or often subequal, narrowly oblong or linear, entire or sometimes weakly expanded and scarious. Corollas cream-colored, 20-28 mm, tubes 6-12 mm, throats 8-10 mm, lobes 4.5-6.5 mm. Flowering late spring-summer (May-Aug). Fields, meadows, forest openings, open woods, brushy slopes; 40-1400 m; Calif., Oreg., Wash. Variety remotifolium occurs primarily west of the Cascade Range in Washington and Oregon and on coastal-facing slopes in northwestern California. Intermediates with var. odontolepis are known through much of that range.