Plant is an upright, glandular perennial. Preferred habitat is swamps, wet soils or standing water, open roadsides where water is persistent in ditches. Distribution is a few counties in western Florida and adjacent Alabama.

Leaves are in basal rosettes, no leaf stalk; egg-shaped or tapering to the tip with sides less than equal; margins are smooth and usually curled inward.

Flowers are solitary at the top of the stem; bisexual; about two inches across and divided into deeply cut notches, each part being the image of the other; calyx is 5-lobed; corolla is funnel-shaped and spurred at the base. Color is blue to whitish blue; 2 stamens. Flowers occur in the spring.

Fruit is a capsule.