Erect plants with dark purple blue usually appearing in pairs at the leaf axils, to 25 mm in length. Leaves are lanceolate, opposite, toothed, and are very short-stalked, or stalkless. Leaf margins are hairy and plant stems are sparsely hairy.

We measured plants growing to a height of 33 cm.

Begins blooming in July. Found in wet places such as steam banks, moist meadows, and ditches.

Photos taken in July 1st, in a moist prairie meadow, 70 km southeast of our home in Regina, SK.