Intro: Erect perennial of rocky woodlands, granite outcrops, Altamaha Grit outcrops, blackland prairies, and moist sandy woodlands associated with longleaf pine.

Stems: Stems mostly unbranched, with sometimes reddish base, hairy.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on stem, petiolate, roundish in outline, to 4 in. long, divided into many hairy, linear segments.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a terminal raceme above leaves, blue-violet (sometimes white), about 3/4 in. wide, tubular and bilaterally symmetric, with 5 curving-spreading petal-like sepals and a 1-in. spur extending behind and upward; 4 less showy, united petals in the center cover stamens and carpel, and the lowest ones are bearded.

Fruits: Fruit a 3-celled, cylindrical follicle, about 1/2 in. long.

Comments: Subspecies calciphilum occurs in limestone cedar glades and prairies; its flower are pale blue to white.

Height: 1-5 ft.

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description: Erect perennial of rocky woodlands, granite outcrops, Altamaha Grit outcrops, blackland prairies, and moist sandy woodlands associated with longleaf pine.

stems: Stems mostly unbranched, with sometimes reddish base, hairy.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on stem, petiolate, roundish in outline, to 4 in. long, divided into many hairy, linear segments.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a terminal raceme above leaves, blue-violet (sometimes white), about 3/4 in. wide, tubular and bilaterally symmetric, with 5 curving-spreading petal-like sepals and a 1-in. spur extending behind and upward; 4 less showy, united petals in the center cover stamens and carpel, and the lowest ones are bearded.

fruits: Fruit a 3-celled, cylindrical follicle, about 1/2 in. long.

comments: Subspecies calciphilum occurs in limestone cedar glades and prairies; its flower are pale blue to white.

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