Plant: Perennial herb; roots fleshy, tufted; stems erect or ascending, freely branching Leaves: sessile or petiolate, linear, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 2.5-17 cm long, 0.3-3 cm wide, the apex acuminate, rarely acute Inflorescence: solitary or clustered spathes; peduncles 0.5-1 cm; spathes 1-2.5(-4) cm long, 0.7-1.5(-2.5) cm wide, the margins fused at the base, glabrous except for fused edge, the surface green usually variously pubescent, the apex acute to acuminate; upper cyme lacking Flowers: perfect and staminate, 1.5-4 cm wide; upper petals blue (rarely lavender or white), the lower petal minute, white; staminodes and medial stamen anther entirely yellow Fruit: FRUITS 3.5-4.5 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, 1 locule warty, indehiscent and 2 locules smooth, dehiscent; SEEDS 3, brown, with soft, whitish tissue at both ends or in a band, 2.4-3.5 mm long, 2.3-2.8 mm wide, nearly smooth Misc: Grasslands to meadows in mesquite woodlands to pine forest on granitic and limestone substrate; 1150-2300 m (3800-7600 ft); Jul-Nov REFERENCES: Puente, Raul, and Robert B. Faden. 2001. Commelinaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).