It is endemic to far northern California, where it is known only from the southern Klamath Mountains.

It grows in coniferous forest and open mountain slopes.

It is an annual herb producing a mostly unbranched erect stem up to 18 centimeters tall.

The linear or lance-shaped leaves are up to 3 centimeters long.

The hairy, glandular inflorescence is a cyme of five-lobed lavender flowers each no more than half a centimeter long.