Plant: Delicate annual 5-15 cm; herbage pubescent, glandular, sticky, scented; stem weak, generally with stalked glands Leaves: simple; lower opposite, 1-5 cm, < 2 cm wide, petiole short, widened to clasping base, blade oblong or ovate, deeply pinnately 7-9-lobed, lobes oblong or oblanceolate, straight or sickle-shaped, entire or few-toothed; upper leaves alternate, greatly reduced, lobed, toothed or entire Inflorescence: cyme, flowers 4-12 per branch; pedicels thread-like, generally erect in fruit Flowers: bisexual, radial; calyx 2-5 mm, < half-fused, bell-shaped, lobes oblong to spoon-shaped, ciliate, generally black-glandular; corolla 2-4 mm, white or blue-purple, tube yellow, bell-shaped, generally > calyx, with V-shaped transverse fold between each pair of filaments below throat; stamens included, equal, equally attached; ovary chamber 1 (or appearing 5 from complex, enlarged placenta), ovules borne on both sides of placenta, style 1, 1-2 mm, stigmas 2 Fruit: capsule, 2-3 mm wide, < calyx, ovoid to spheric, bristly; Seeds 7-15, oblong, becoming incurved, worm-like, black or dark-brown, wrinkled Misc: Canyons, hillsides, rocky crevices, washes, slopes; 60-2500 m.; Mar-Jun References: J.C. Hickman, ed. The Jepson Manual.W.B. McDougal. Seed Plants of Northern Arizona.ASU Specimens