Stems 1–5 dm, papillate-puberulent; lvs ovate or elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, 3–11 × 1–3 cm, scabro-ciliolate; fls in terminal clusters and often sessile in the upper axils or on short lateral branches; cal-tube papillate-puberulent, its lobes mostly deltoid-ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, to 12 mm, ciliolate-margined; cor 3–5 cm, closed, tapering to a narrow top, whitish below, suffused with blue above, the deltoid lobes only 1.5–3 mm, about equaling but only half as wide as the shortly bifid appendages; anthers connate. Upper elev., especially on grassy balds, in the Blue Ridge of Tenn. and N.C. and adj. Va. Sept., Oct.
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