Plants 20-30(-35) cm tall, densely yellow-brown glandular pubescent. Stems usually branched from base. Leaves white, borne at stem base, broadly ovate or semirounded, glabrescent on both sides. Inflorescences racemose, 10-20(-25) cm; bracts borne at pedicel base, ovate-lanceolate or lanceo-late, 6-9 mm, along with pedicels, calyx, and corolla densely glandular pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 7-9 mm, apex irregularly 4-lobed; lobes triangular, 4-5 mm. Corolla purple or blue-purple, 1.5-1.7 cm; tube white; upper lip entire or emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed. Filaments 5-7 mm, pubescent; anthers long ovoid, 1.8-2 mm, densely white pubescent, base mucronate. Ovary subobovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm. Style 1.2-1.4 cm; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule obovoid, 5-7 X 3-4 mm. Seeds 4, irregularly globose, 1.8-2 mm in diam. Fl. Mar-May, fr. May-Jul.
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