Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Oregon and Utah, also in eastern North America.

Habitat: Escaping from cultivation; occurring in moderately moist, disturbed soil.

Flowers: May-August

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Generalist

Perennial herbs, the upright stems up to 5 dm. tall, the herbage glabrous throughout.

Lower leaves oblong, petiolate; upper leaves alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate

Flowers several in an elongate raceme, on long, curved pedicels arising from the axils of small bracts; calyx lobes 5, narrow; corolla broadly bell-shaped, blue-violet, 30-40 mm. long, the 5 lobes broadly triangular; stamens 5; stigma 3-lobed; ovary inferior.

Capsule 3-celled.