Taprooted, glandular pubescent, short-lived perennial with a well-developed basal rosette of leaves; stems 10-90 cm tall, freely and divaricately branching; basal leaves entire, to coarsely toothed, to once-pinnatifid, 1.2-5 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide; lower stem leaves entire and linear to occasionally pinnatifid, reduced in size upward, 1-18 mm long; inflorescence a loosely open cymose-panicle; calyx cylindrical to campanulate, 3-4.7 mm long; corolla 6-18 mm long, blue to nearly white, funnelform to salverform, tube 5.5-12 mm long, corolla lobes narrowly oblanceolate, 3-5.5 mm long; stamens equally inserted in the upper tube; style well exserted to included; fruit a capsule, 3-5 mm long, 2.3-2.9 mm wide, ovoid; seed 1.8-2.2 mm long, pale gray-brown. Flowers May through early August.