Distribution: Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California.

Habitat: Open, often rocky areas, mid- to high elevations in the mountains.

Flowers: May-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Butterflies, moths

Taprooted, tufted perennial, forming loose mats up to 1 dm. tall.

Leaves opposite, narrowly linear but rather soft, green and glabrous, up to 20 mm. long and 2 mm. wide.

Flowers solitary and sessile at the ends of the branches; calyx covered with loose, soft hairs, with flat, papery intervals between the herbaceous segments, the 5 lobes narrow and thickened; corolla white to light pink or blue, the tube 9-17 mm. long, nearly twice as long as the calyx, the 5 lobes 5-9 mm. long; filaments short and unequally attached in the corolla tube, style 3-parted, 5-8 mm. long; ovary superior.

Capsule 3 celled, with one seed in each cell.