PLANT: Annual, 8-30 cm tall, branched throughout; stems cobwebby pubescent below, glandular above. LEAVES: cobwebby pubescent, reduced above the basal rosette; basal and lower leaves deeply lobed once or twice; cauline basally lobed or entire. INFLORESCENCE: open, with 1-2 pedicelled flowers at the branch tips. FLOWERS: calyx 3-5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes acuminate; corolla funnelform, 7-12 mm long, the tube usually exserted, purple, the throat yellow, the lobes pink; stamens inserted on the throat; anthers exserted; stigma located among the anthers. CAPSULE: 4-6 mm long, ovoid to subglobose. 2n=36. NOTES: Open sites, shrublands, woodlands; Apache, Coconino, Gila, Greenlee, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai cos; 1000-2150 m (3200-7000 ft); Apr-Jun; se CA to UT, s to AZ and NM. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.