Plants perennial, forming loose mats from numerous branched and tangled woody rhizomes; stems ascending-decumbent, 2-8 cm tall, minutely puberulent; stem leaves opposite, sessile, glabrous or with a few trichomes at the base, entire to serrulate, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; inflorescence terminal, secund, +/- racemose; pedicels mostly 1-2 mm long, densely pubescent with gland tipped trichomes; sepals lanceolate, 5-8 mm long; corolla lavender, 12-25 mm; stamens included, anthers 1.1-1.3 mm long, dark purple, finely puberulent with scattered longer trichomes, opening across the connective; staminode bearded at the very tip. Flowers in July and possibly August.