Stems: +/- prostrate or sprawling, some flowering branches ascending, not rooting at nodes; twigs light-green, round, smooth or slightly ridged, densely pubescent, flexible.
Leaves: evergreen, alternate; clustered; stipules thin, deciduous; petioles 1--2 mm; blades linear, elliptic to +/- rectangular, 0.8--2.7 x 0.3--1.1 cm, bases cuneate, rounded or truncate, 1-veined, margin +/- revolute, minutely gland-to othed, tips truncate or broadly rounded, sometimes appearing notched, abaxially gray-tomentose, adaxially dark green, glandular-papillate, plane or +/- concave.
Inflorescences: terminal or axillary, +/- raceme-like, to 5.0 cm.
Flowers: blue.
Fruits: +/- 4 mm broad, smooth, horns 0; valve crests 0.
Cytology:
Flowering: in spring.
Habitat: coastal scrub, coastal prarie, maritime chaparral, low hills; below 200 m.
Range: Calif. [CCo (near Arroyo de la Cruz, San Luis Obispo Co.)] View Distribution Map.
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