Annual or perennial herb 10 - 50 cm tall. Leaves: opposite, stalked, 1 - 6.5 cm long, pinnately cut, often three-lobed with lateral lobes smaller than the large central lobe. Flowers: borne in clusters of one to three on elongate terminal spikes 10 - 15 mm across, having bracts longer than the calyx (8 - 15 mm) with a leaf-like lower bract and a lance-linear upper bract. The calyx is stiff-haired and 3 - 4 mm long, and the corolla is bluish to purple with the tube slightly longer than the calyx. Fruit: four linear nutlets, each 2 - 2.5 mm long, the calyx lobes surrounding the nutlets by coming together at the tip. Stems: several, decumbent to ascending, loosely branched, stiff-haired.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Location: Top of Ski Valley.
8/19/15

Notes: Top of Ski Valley 7/3/16.

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