Stems: +/- spreading to erect, not rooting at nodes; twigs gray-green, round, smooth, pubescent, glandular or not, flexible.
Leaves: evergreen, alternate; not clustered; stipules thin, deciduous; petioles 2--8 mm; blades elliptic to +/- oblong, 1.3--3.8 x 0.6--1.9 cm, bases rounded or tapering, 1 or 3-veined, margins not revolute, minutely glandular-serrate or denticulate, tips acute to obtuse, abaxially pale dull green, densely pubescent, adaxially dull green, +/- glabrous to strigose, plane.
Inflorescences: axillary or terminal, +/- raceme-like, dense, 1.3--2.6 cm.
Flowers: pale blue.
Fruits: +/- trihedral, depressed at top, +/-4 mm broad, smooth, horns 0; valves prominently crested.
Cytology: n = 12. [M. Nobs in H. McMinn 1942]
Flowering: in spring to early summer
Habitat: open, wooded slopes; 350-1000 m
Range: Calif. [NCoRI, CaRF, n&c SNF] View Distribution Map.
