PLANT: Subshrub, woody at base, 40–90 cm tall, unarmed, without tubers or stolons, puberulent to soft -pilose mainly on stems and veins of leaves. LEAVES: simple, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, 1–5 cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide, ca. 2 times as long as wide, submembranous, the margin entire or rarely with occasional teeth; apex acute to rounded; base rounded to oblique; petiole 5–15 mm long. INFLORESCENCE: an umbel-like panicle with up to 6 flowers; peduncle 5–2 mm long. FLOWERS: actinomorphic (Fig. 3I); pedicel 5–15 mm long; calyx up to 7 mm long and wide, campanulate, the lobes deltoid, shorter than the tube; corolla deep blue to lavender, 15–30 mm wide; stamens equal; anthers 4–5 mm long, not adherent, opening by ashort slit; filaments up to 1/3 as long as the anthers; style longer than the stamens. FRUITS: 10–15 mm in diam., green, not enclosed by the calyx; seeds 1.5–2 mm in diam., numerous, yellowish brown, reniform. NOTES: Rocky bajada slopes in chaparral: Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Santa Cruz, Yavapai cos. (Fig. 2I); 1000–2100 m (3000–7000 ft); Apr–Nov; AZ, CA; Baja C., Mex. Native Americans of the central valley of California ate the berries raw (Ebeling, 1986). REFERENCES: Chiang, F. and L.R. Landrum. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae Part Three: Lycium. CANOTIA 5 (1): 17–26, 2009.