Annual herb, pubescent, yellowish; stock short; scapes erect, 20-40 cm long. Leaves oblanceolate, ±lyrately pinnatifid, often glabrescent; lamina to 20 cm long. Bracteoles free or nearly so, leaf-like; lower ones to 40 mm long. Sepals connate into a short tube; adaxial one broadly ovate, to 10 mm long. Corolla to 20 mm long, pubescent outside and inside, with enations, lilac to white; wings more than 1/2 as long as adaxial lobes. Ovary with septum c. 1/2 as long as locule; ovules c. 20; indusium broadly ovate, c. 5 mm wide, villous. Capsule ovoid. Seeds orbicular, 4 mm diam., punctate; wing 1 mm wide.