It is a perennial herb growing from a slender rhizome and producing an erect or leaning stem up to about 30 centimeters long.

The flower is bright blue to deep purple, funnel-shaped, and just over a centimeter long.

This species was first collected by Lewanna Wilkins and named in her honor.

[2] It is endemic to California, where it is known fewer than twenty scattered occurrences in the Klamath Mountains and Cascade Range, and possibly the northern peaks of the High Sierra.

It grows in temperate coniferous forest and mountain meadows.