Plants caespitose with thick rootstock, up to 30 cm tall. Stems many, erect to trailing, thin, hoary, pubescent. Leaves numerous, subsessile to shortly petiolate lanceolate to oval, hoary pubescent, 5 mm to 3 cm long, margin entire to Inflorescence in lax corymbs. Flowers pedicellate, campanulate, 5 mm to Calyx about 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the corolla, calyx teeth acute, triangular to lanceolate. Corolla pale-violet to blue, up to 2 cm long; style hairy, included or as the corolla tube.

Fl. Per.: July-August.

Type: Kioonthul Royle 108/8 (LIV).

Distribution: Afghanistan, Tibet, Kashmir, Himalayas.

A variable species with both large and small leaves and plants and much variation in pubescence. A fairly common plant in the Himalayas.