Upper stem leaf in above photo

Lower stem leaf in above photo 

Short plants growing in small clumps. Entire plant downy hairy. Flowers white to pink, arching, the upper lip about twice as long as the 3-lobed lower lip. Flowers measured to 5 cm long. Leaves alternate. Upper leaves cleft into 3 lobes, upper leaf measured at 3 cm long and 3 cm wide. Lower leaves entire, linear, lower leaf measured at 30 mm long and 3 mm wide.

Habitat is hillsides on the southern prairie. Uncommon.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm, we measured plants to19 cm tall.

Photos taken June 17th, steep prairie roadside, edge of the Dirt Hills, about 100 km south west of our home in Regina, SK.

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