Stems ca. 44 cm tall, ± terete, finely retrorse pilose, densely so on nodes. Petiole of basal leaves 8-11.5 cm, others ca. 2.5 cm; basal leaf blades broadly ovate, ca. 14 × 12 cm, adaxially corrugate, sparsely strigose, abaxially densely stellate and finely pilose on veins, base deeply cordate, margin crenate, apex obtuse or acute; stem leaf blades cordate, 5.5-8 × ca. 5 cm, margin crenate. Verticillasters ca. 8-flowered; floral leaves short petiolate to subsessile, ovate to lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 × 0.7-2.7 cm, base shallowly cordate to broadly cuneate, margin irregularly dentate-crenate or shallowly serrate, apex obtuse to acuminate; bracts bristlelike, 0.9-1.1 cm, densely stellate puberulent, ciliate. Calyx campanulate, 1.1-1.2 cm, densely stellate puberulent outside; teeth bearded, broad at base, subtruncate or emarginate, apical spines 2-3 mm. Corolla red-purple, ca. 2.2 cm, densely pubescent on limb, glabrous except on back outside, villous annulate inside; upper lip ca. 9 mm, deeply incised, bearded inside on margin; lower lip ca. 8 × 7 mm, middle lobe obcordate, ca. 5 × 6 mm, apex emarginate; lateral lobes ovate, ca. 2.5 mm. Stamens included; filaments villous, appendage long, reflexed at base above villous annulus of tube. Nutlets glabrous.

Alpine meadows; 2200 m. Jilin (Changbai Shan) [Korea].