It is a serpentine soils endemic growing in the coniferous forests of the mountains.

This is an annual herb with a branching or unbranched erect stem reaching no more than about 15 centimeters in height.

It is glandular and coated in short hairs called trichomes.

The hairy inflorescence is a small, one-sided curving or coiling cyme of five-lobed flowers.

Each flower is about half a centimeter long and deep purple or blue in color with a white or yellowish tubular throat.