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Perennial herb, 30-48 mm high; rootstock underground, producing one or a few tufted stems; simple or branching near base, leafy but usually with long, bare axis below flowers; hairs sparse, often only on pedicels and calyx. Leaves ovate, obtuse, ± sessile, denticulate. Flowers in loose racemes with many flowers. Corolla: tube with 2 raised, yellow-orange bosses inside near spur; lobes often purplish blue, rarely pinkish, palate usually yellow, sometimes white. Spur narrowly conical, short, 2.0-3.0(-3.5) mm long. Flowering time Dec. Fruit an ovate or oblong capsule, apex emarginate, rounded.
Perennial herb. Stems 1-several from creeping underground stock, or branching near base, leafy below, passing into nude axis below flowers, hairs often only on pedicels and calyx. Leaves subsessile; blade ovate, 25 x 12 mm, margins serrate. Flowers: in lax, many-flowered, bracteate racemes, on long, bare peduncles; spur conical, 1.6-2.1 mm long; corolla 8-10 mm long, limb usually violet-blue, palate often pale yellow, sometimes white, 2 bosses inside tube at entrance to spur bright yellow; Nov.-Jan. Fruit an ovate or oblong capsule, 6-13 x 5.0-8.5 mm, apex emarginate, rounded.
Perennial herb, producing 1 to several stems from creeping underground stock. Stems leafy below, passing into nude axis, terminating in lax many-flowered bracteate raceme. Leaves ovate, subsessile, margins serrate. Spur 2.0-3.0(-3.5) mm long. Flowers 8-10 mm long, limb usually violet-blue, palate often yellow, sometimes white, the 2 bosses inside tube at entrance to spur bright yellow.
A herb. It grows 50 cm tall. It has many small flowers that are pink, blue or white.
