Japan Flora: Smooth biennial; stems erect, few-flowered, 5-40 cm. long, simple or sparingly branched, with few pairs of leaves; lower leaves obovate-spathulate, obtuse to rounded, the median ones largest, ovate-oblong or broadly lanceolate, 7 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, subacute, sessile, ascending, the upper leaves smaller and narrower; flowers 4- to 5-merous, 2.5:35 cm. long, the peduncles (l-)5-12 cm. long, the bracts absent; calyx-tube 1-1.5 cm. long, 4- or 5-angled, the lobes erect, deltoid-lanceolate, unequal, usually shorter than the tube, acuminate; corolla 25-35 mm. long, pale blue, the lobes short, obtuse, fimbriate near base; capsules shorter than the corolla, short-stipitate; seeds minutely spinulose. Aug.-Sept. Al­pine slopes;

Honshu (Mount Shirouma in Shinano); rare.