Herbs strigose. Stems usually single, erect, branched above, 3-6 cm tall. Basal leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, 3-7 mm; stem leaves linear, 5-10 mm. Pedicel 2-3 mm in fruit. Calyx lobes linear, ca. 2 mm, arcuate inward in fruit, crisped pubescent. Corolla light blue; tube shorter than limb; lobes suborbicular. Nutlets oblique ovoid, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent when young, yellowish white, shiny. Fl. and fr. Apr-May.

N Xinjiang [N India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan].