Plants annual. Stems erect, up to 45 cm tall, simple, or branched from base and thus caespitose, hispid. Basal leaves sometimes rosulate, shortly petiolate; blade spatulate or elliptic, withering early, base cuneate or attenuate, margin serrulate, apex acute. Cauline leaves winged-petiolate, 2-7 cm; blade spatulate, elliptic, or linear, base attenuate, margin serrulate or subentire, apex acute or acuminate. Cymes multiple, aggregated into a terminal panicle; pedicels unequal in length, those of upper flowers in a cyme longer. Hypanthium semiglobose to obconic, base acute; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, 3-5 mm. Corolla purple or blue-purple, campanulate, outside hispid, inside glabrous; lobes equaling tube. Style included. Capsules globose. Seeds yellow-brown, oblong or elliptic, compressed, ca. 0.3 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Mar-Apr.
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