Stems 2–5 cm above ground. Herbage purplish, glabrous to puberulent. Inflorescence a glandular, crowded, bracteate spike, raceme or panicle; pedicels ascending, 0–6 mm long. Flowers: calyx 8–14 mm long; sepals linear-lanceolate, 5–10 mm long; corolla 11–21 mm long, purple, yellow within the mouth, the lobes 2–5 mm long. Capsule 7–10 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 pensylvanicus (Colla and Dumesh 2010).