PLANT: Short-lived perennial, 20-75 cm tall, simple to branched at base; stems short pilose to woolly. LEAVES: glabrous to sparsely short pilose or glandular, the lower deeply lobed, the upper entire or few lobed. INFLORESCENCE: usually one sided, with subsessile flowers crowded near tips of short, lateral branches. FLOWER: calyx 4-7 mm long, short-glandular pubescent, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla purplish, the tube 15-25 mm long, curved slightly downward, the throat 2-3 mm wide, the lobes obovate, apiculate, sometimes with white or dark purple flecks; stamens inserted on the tube; filaments unequal; anthers included to slightly exserted; stigma slightly exceeding the anthers. CAPSULE: 5-7.5 mm long; seeds 1-3 per locule. 2n=14. NOTES: Sandy to gravelly soils, oak woodland, coniferous forest; Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz cos.; 1430-2690 m (4700-8800 ft); Jul-Nov; NM to TX, n Mex. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.