PLANT: Annual, 5-40 cm tall, simple to branched; stems glandular. LEAVES: glandular and short pilose, reduced above the basal rosette; basal and lower lobed once or twice, the lobes entire or toothed; cauline lobed to entire, the lobes ovate. INFLORESCENCE: open, with 1-2 pedicelled flowers at branch tips. FLOWER: calyx 3-5 mm long, slightly glandular, the lobes acuminate; corolla funnelform to salverform, 10-16 mm long, the tube 2-3 times the calyx length, pink to lavender, the throat yellow, the lobes pink to lavender; stamens inserted on the upper throat; anthers located just above the throat; stigma located among the anthers. CAPSULE: 4-6 mm long, broadly ovoid. 2n=18,36. NOTES: Washes, rocky slopes, desert shrublands; Coconino, La Paz, Mohave, Yuma cos.; 450-1100 m (1500-3600 ft); Feb-May; s CA to sw UT, s to AZ. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.