Japan Flora: Smooth, glabrous biennial; stems erect, 4-angled, 5-20 cm. long, sparingly branched or simple; basal leaves small, obianceolatc-spathulate; cauline leaves nar­rowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, subacute, sessile, obliquely spreading; flowers few, blue, subsessile or pedunculate, 2.5-3 cm. long; calyx-tube 7-10 mm. long, narrowly 5-winged, the lobes ovatc-cordate, obtuse, auric- ulate, 5-7 mm. across, minutely papillose on the margin; co­rolla about twice as long as the calyx, the lobes 5, nearly half as long as the tube, their crown deltoid-ovate, finely laciniate; capsules sessile, as long as the corolla; seeds globose, smooth. Aug.

Hokkaido. Sakhalin, Kuriles, northern regions of e. Asia to the Aleutian Isis.