Japan Flora: Stems tufted, fleshy, pro­cumbent, to 1 m. long, many-leaved; radical and lower leaves long-petiolate, oblong, elliptic, obovate to broadly so, 3-8 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, slightly fleshy, glabrous on both sides or loosely short callose-based hairy, without distinct nerves, the upper leaves subsessile; inflorescence glabrous; flowers pedi- celled, bracteate, blue, 8-12 mm. long; calyx-segments gla­brous, acute, as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets fleshy. Sandy seashores.

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.). Sakhalin, Kuriles, Korea, and Aleutians.