PLANT: Annual, 3-18 cm tall, simple to branched; stems short glandular to short woolly. LEAVES: subglabrous to short woolly, often glandular, lower deeply lobed, upper lobed to entire. INFLORESCENCE: a congested terminal head, bracteate, the bracts entire to toothed; flowers subsessile. FLOWER: calyx 3-6 mm long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla lavender to purplish, the tube 4-8 mm long, the throat 0.5-1 mm wide, the lobes acute to rounded; stamens inserted on the throat between the lobes; filaments subequal; anthers and stigma slightly exserted. CAPSULE: 3-5.5 mm long; seeds 2-5 per locule. 2n=14. NOTES: Sandy soils, desert shrublands, pinyon-juniper woodland; Apache, Coconino cos.; 1490-1920 m (4900-6300 ft);Mar-Jun(Oct); UT to WY, s to TX, n Mex. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.