Annual to short-lived perennial. Stems lax, ascending, 7–60 cm, rarely rooting at the nodes. Herbage strigose, sometimes sparsely so. Leaves mainly cauline, 1–8 cm long. Flowers: calyx 3–5 mm long in fruit, strigose; corolla blue, limb 2–5 mm across. Nutlets black, ca. 2 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus appositus and
Bombus melanopygus (Wilson et al. 2010).