Japan Flora: Glabrous, erect perennial, 5-10 cm. high, short^cixeping at the base and densely covered with old leaves; leaves rather thick, elliptic or oblong, 8-17 mm. long, 6- 2 mm. wide, obtuse, slightly glaucescent, sessile; flowers 1 to few, pale blue, about 2 cm. long, the peduncles 0-3 mm. long; calyx-tube 4-5 mm. long, the lobes half as long as the tube, deltoid-lanceolate, subacute; plaits of corolla entire, about 1/4 as long as the corolla-lobes, obtuse, deltoid; capsules long- stipitate, exserted, broadly lanceolate; seeds reticulate, with irregular small wings. Aug.-Sept. Alpine; 

Hokkaido (Ishikari Prov.); rare. Kuriles, Kamchatka, Ochotsk Sea region, and western N. America.