Leaves 6–13 mm wide, not glaucous. Flowers usually zygomorphic; tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale bluish violet, each usually 5- or 7-veined, occasionally 3-veined in outer whorls, 20–35 × 5 mm; anthers bright yellow, 5–7 mm; fruiting pedicel strongly incurving, with capsules closely appressed to raceme axes, 35–60 mm. Capsules 7–19 mm. Seeds 6–10 per locule.

Flowering mid--late spring. Fields, pastures; 300--1000 m; Oreg.