Stem 10--25 cm tall, retrorsely puberulent, simple. Leaf blade 2--9 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-cleft, distally 1-or 2-lobulate or undivided, apex acute; ultimate lobules narrowly triangular to lanceolate-linear; proximal leaves not withered. Corymb 3--10 cm, 2--5-flowered; most proximal bract usually leaflike, shortly petiolate, others lanceolate or linear, 5.5--11.5 mm. Pedicels 0.8--8.5 cm, puberulent; bracteoles distal, lanceolate or linear, 5.5--11.5 mm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent; spur subulate or cylindric-subulate, 1.7--2.1 cm, straight or slightly recurved, base 2.2--3 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.5--1.6 cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb obovate, 2-cleft, yellow barbate. Filaments glabrous or pilose. Carpels 3, glabrous. Fl. Aug.