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Corolla dark blue to purple; tube 7–10 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous without, throat pilose; limb 5–7.5 mm. in diam.; lobes 2–5 x 1–1.8 mm., unequal, obovate.
Calyx 6–7 mm. long, 5-lobed, obscurely 10-nerved, hispid on nerves only or glabrous, lobes 1–1.5 mm. long, triangular, not spreading after flowering.
Perennial herb 2.5–4.5(10) cm. tall; stems many arising from a short woody base, 1.5–4.5(10) cm. long, subterete, glabrous to sparsely hispid.
Inflorescence spicate with terminal spikes, c. 1 cm. long, few-flowered increasing to c. 3 cm. long at flowering with flowers lax.
Capsule 5.5–6 x 1.5 mm., oblong in outline, subcompressed, remains of style persistent.
Bracts 3.5–4.5(5) x 1.5–2 mm., ovate, 1-nerved, hispid on median nerve, ciliate-hispid.
Bracteoles, 2.5–4 x 0.2–0.3 mm., linear-subulate, patent-hispid.