PLANT: Short-lived perennial, 35-100 cm tall, simple to branched at base; stems often woody at base, with short glandular hairs, nonglandular below. LEAVES: subglabrous to sparsely short-pilose, deeply lobed. INFLORESCENCE: narrow, one-sided, with subsessile to short-pedicelled flowers on lateral branches. FLOWER: calyx 4-6 mm long, short glandular pubescent, the lobes acute to acuminate; corolla white to lavender, the tube 25-35 mm long, the throat 2-4 mm wide, the lobes lanceolate to ovate, acuminate to apiculate, often with pink to lavender flecks; stamens inserted unequally on the tube; filaments unequal; anthers included to slightly exserted; stigma slightly exserted. CAPSULE: 5-8 mm long; seeds 6-12 per locule. 2n=14. NOTES: 2 subspp., OR to ID, s to CA and AZ. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.