Plant: annual herb; from a fibrous root system; stems twining Leaves: simple, cordate, acuminate, 2-6 cm long, 1.4-3.8 cm wide, glabrous, the petioles 0.5-6.5 cm long INFLORESCENCE: cymose, 1-2-flowered; peduncles 1.5-4.5 cm long; bracts scale-like, caducous Flowers: on pedicels 10-18 mm long, reflexing in fruit; sepals triangular, glabrous, 6 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, acute, rugose along the midvein, scarious-margined, the inner sepals somewhat wider than outer ones; corollas funnelform, 2.6-2.7 cm long, blue (drying purple or pinkish), glabrous, the limb 3-3.5 cm wide; stamens 10-13 mm long, included, the anthers 1-2 mm long; ovary conic, 2-2.5 mm long, 2-locular, glabrous; style 11 mm long, green Fruit: FRUITS ovoid, 10-12 mm long, tan to brown, the apiculum to 4 mm long. SEEDS 1-4, 5-6 mm long, ovoid, brown, finely appressed-tomentose Misc: Desertscrub; 1150 m (3700 ft); Sep REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61. REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61.