Perrenial, velvety-canescent, herbaceous shrublet up to 75 cm tall, with erect to ascending branches arising from a woody base. Leaves are sessile to subsessile, cuneate, 3–5-lobed at the apex, tapering at the base, up to 30 mm long, with revolute margins; upper leaves become smaller and elliptic. Flowers are deep blue to violet, solitary and axillary, borne on a prominent pedicel (>6 mm) and arranged in long, lax, terminal racemes of paired flowers. Calyx is velvety, campanulate, about 5 mm long and divided into five triangular lobes. Corolla is up to 18 mm long. Flowers have two pairs of unequal-length, exerted stamens soloured like the corolla and excerted not gynobasic styles. Fruits are elliptic nutlets, densely hairy, about 2.5 mm long.