Plant: annual, fleshy; stem 1-15 cm, many-branched Leaves: simple, cauline; lower opposite, 4-16 cm, 1-8 cm wide; upper alternate; petiole widely winged, clasping, blade oblong to ovate-lanceolate, base cordate, tip acuminate, lobes 5-13, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, entire or 1-5-toothed INFLORESCENCE: flowers solitary or 2-6 in cymes; pedicels 1-3 cm Flowers: calyx lobes 3-9 mm, ± lanceolate, hairy, bristly-ciliate, sinus appendages 1-4 mm; corolla 3-15 mm, 5-30 mm wide, blue to purple with darker marks in throat, rotate, lobed to middle, lobes generally hairy; stamens included, equal, equally attached; ovary chamber 1, bristly-hairy, style 4-8 mm; 1, 2-lobed in distal 1/2 Fruit: capsule, 5-10 mm wide, enclosed in calyx, spheric; bristles stout; Seeds 1-4, brown, pitted or honeycombed Misc: Ocean bluffs, talus slopes, woodlands, streambanks, canyons, desert scrub; 0-1900 m. References: Kearney & Peebles, McDougall, Utah Flora