Perennial herbs; stems (15)20-30(40) cm tall, few to numerous, ascending or very shortly decumbent, woody below, herbaceous above, branching frequently in lower half, villous below, sparsely to densely puberulent above with tightly retrorse hairs; leaves thick, membranous, elliptical-oblong, 8-18 mm long, 2-6.5 mm wide, margins entire to obscurely serrate, base elongated, petiole short or none, apex obtuse, glabrous above, strigulose below and on margins, nerves conspicuous; cymules well-spaced along upper 2/3 of stems with 3-5(7) flowers per cymule, peduncles 1-2 mm long, pedicels 2-3.5 mm long, minutely puberulent; calyx 6-7 mm long, the tube 3-5 mm long, slightly gibbous below for about 1/2 the tube length, the distended region about 1.2 mm wide, typically moderately hirsute, upper calyx teeth connate for 1/3-1/4 their length, forming an upper lip 1.5-2 mm long, the lobes nearly subulate, about 0.3 mm wide at base, about 1.7 mm long, laterally spreading and reflexed but becoming erect and convergent with lower teeth during maturation, hirsute, lower calyx teeth recurved, subulate, about 0.5 mm wide at base, about 2.7 mm long; corolla, tubular, bilabiate, 10-14 mm long, blue, sparsely villous within the throat and densely short pubescent in the tube forming a well-defined annulus 2-3 mm wide, tube 8-10 mm long, throat strongly dilated, about 5 mm wide, upper lip broadly strap-like, slightly emarginate, 3-3.3 mm wide, 3-4 mm long, straight (not upwardly reflexed), lower lip broad, about 7 mm wide and 5 mm long. Flowers July to September.