Stems erect, 3–7 dm, finely hairy; lower lvs often petioled and dentate, but usually soon deciduous; median and upper lvs lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2–6 cm × 4–15 mm, usually obtuse, entire, tapering to a sessile or shortly petiolar base; lower bracts similar to the lvs, the upper progressively smaller, the uppermost about equaling the cal; cor blue (pink), 18–28 mm, ascending or suberect; 2n=32. Fields and open woods; e. Mass. to Fla. and Tex., especially on the coastal plain; also inland to s. O., Ky., and Tenn. May–July.
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