Plant: Annual 12-50 cm; stem erect, 0-few-branched above base, short-stiff-hairy, glandular Leaves: alternate, 20-120 mm; blade generally = petiole, ovate to round, lower compound (leaflets 3-7, rounded or toothed), upper lobed to compound (segments 3, generally rounded) Inflorescence: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short Flowers: pedicel 1-2 mm; calyx lobes 3-4.5 mm, 4-5.5 mm in fruit, narrowly oblanceolate, sparsely hairy, ciliate, glandular; corolla 5-7 mm, bell-shaped, pink to blue, deciduous, scales round; stamens 6-8 mm, glabrous; style 6-8 mm Fruit: capsule, 3-3.5 mm, ± spheric, puberulent; Seeds generally 4, ± 3 mm, oblong to spheric, generally brownish; back pitted; inner surface with central ridge separating 2 longitudinal grooves Misc: Sandy or gravelly washes, canyons; < 1400 m.; Mar-May