Authors:

Botanical Description

Stems 20-70cm tall. Leaves entire, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, basal ones up to 15cm long, cauline seldom to 10cm long. Flowers blue-purple, mostly 1.1-1.5cm long, in tight verticillasters. Meadows and moist, open slopes, occasionally on drier slopes with sagebrush chiefly in the foothills and at moderate elevations in the mountains at 1300-3300m. Washington to Montana and Wyoming to the Sierra Nevada in California and into Utah and New Mexico. For moist sun or part shade. Easily grown. The following varieties are distinguished by anther and calyx characteristics: F.r. var. oreocharis and rydbergii have flowers 1-1.4cm long; in var. aggregatus they may be larger, 1.3-2cm long.