Tufted perennial, usually many-stemmed from a thickened taproot, hirsute near base, or glabrous; stems erect or ascending, 10–80 cm long, usually many-branched, often leafless in upper half; leaves alternate or the lower ones opposite, narrowly obovate, oblong, or oblanceolate, 5–80 mm long, 1–6 mm wide; margins commonly with small callus-teeth, sometimes entire. Hypanthium (usually narrowly) obconical, 2–7 mm long, glabrous; calyx-lobes spreading, narrow-triangular, 1–5.5 mm long, glabrous; corolla rotate, blue, tube 0.5–1.5 mm long, shorter than calyx-lobes, lobes elliptic to obovate, (2–)4–9 mm long, (1–)3–5.5 mm wide, obtuse to acute, widely spreading; style 2–5.5 mm long, strongly constricted in upper third, lobes 3, ovate. Capsule obconical, 4–12.5 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide. Flowers mostly Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Except for the far north-west, densely forested areas and higher alps, common and widespread throughout much of the State. Usually growing in freely draining soils.
