Erect plant with stout stems. Single stemmed to clumping growth habit. Plants glabrous, leaves are thick and glacuous. Flowers sky blue to violet, tubular, irregular, 1 cm diameter, flowers to 2 cm long. Flowers in a dense raceme. Stem leaves are opposite, sessile, oblong to ovate, measured at 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. Basal leaves have petioles, to 9 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, oblanceolate.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm. I measured plants in the above photos to 20 cm tall.

Common. Native to dry prairie hills, clay badlands, eroded sites in southern Saskatchewan. Spring bloomer.

Photos taken May 5th and May 13th, on steep slopes of the Qu'Appelle River Valley, 30 km north of our home in Regina, SK, and May 20th in the Cypress Hills 450 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.